Network device tracking using a network device server
AssigneeKestrelink Corporation
InventorsMike Evans, William B. Weiser, R. Douglas Jones
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Abstract
Systems and methods for tracking devices that are connected to physical communication ports of a network device server. In one example embodiment, a method includes detecting the connection of a device to a physical communication port of a device server; determining whether the device has been assigned an NCC; if the device has not been assigned an NCC, assigning an unassigned NCC to the device; and mapping the device's assigned NCC to the physical communication port.
Claims20
In a networked computing environment including a network device server having at least one physical communication port, a method for tracking devices that are connected to the at least one physical communication port of the device server, the method comprising:
- detecting the connection of a device to a physical communication port of a device server;
- determining whether the device has been assigned an NCC;
- if the device has not been assigned an NCC, assigning an unassigned NCC to the device;
- and
- mapping the device's assigned NCC to the physical communication port.
A computer program product tracking devices that are connected to at least one physical communication port of a device server, the computer program product comprising:
- a computer readable medium carrying computer executable instructions for implementing the method, the computer executable instructions, when executed, causing the system to perform the following:
- an act of detecting the connection of a device to a physical communication port of a device server;
- an act of determining whether the device has been assigned an NCC;
- if the device has not been assigned an NCC, an act of assigning an unassigned NCC to the device;
- and
- an act of mapping the device's assigned NCC to the physical communication port.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.