Network device having dynamic port or link status indicators
AssigneeJuniper Networks, Inc.
InventorsEswaran Srinivasan, Vineet Sharma, Sumeet Mundra
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Abstract
An example network device includes a plurality of network ports that each facilitate one or more network links between the network device and one or more remote devices, a plurality of indicators each configured to represent a status of a respective one of the plurality of network ports on the network device, and processing circuitry configured to reconfigure at least one of the plurality of indicators to represent a link-status of the one or more network links of at least one network port of the network device in response to a command.
Claims16
A network device comprising:
- a plurality of network ports that each facilitate one or more network links between the network device and one or more remote devices;
- a plurality of port-status indicators each configured to represent a port-status of a respective one of the plurality of network ports on the network device;
- and
- processing circuitry configured to reconfigure a first port-status indicator of the plurality of port-status indicators previously configured to represent a port-status of a first network port to represent a link-status of the one or more network links of a second different network port of the plurality of network ports in response to a command,
- wherein the network device is without dedicated link-status indicators.
A method of operating a network device, the method comprising:
- configuring, via processing circuitry, a plurality of port-status indicators to represent a port-status of a respective one of a plurality of network ports, wherein each network port of the plurality of network ports facilitates one or more network links between a network device and one or more remote devices;
- receiving, by the processing circuitry, a command to reconfigure one or more of the plurality of port-status indicators;
- and
- reconfiguring, via the processing circuitry, a first port-status indicator of the plurality of port-status indicators previously configured to represent a port-status of a first network port to represent a link-status of the one or more network links of a second different network port of the network device in response to the command,
- wherein the network device is without dedicated link-status indicators.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.