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US 2016/0080218 A1Published application
System and Method for Network Health and Management
AssigneeBroadcom Corporation
InventorsWilliam Brad Matthews, Mohan Venkatachar Kalkunte
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Abstract
A system and method for network health and management. Intelligent assessments of a current or new network configuration can be performed based on a health of the network that is derived using health messages that are indicative of the utilization of one or more forwarding tables in a plurality of network switches.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving, via a communications network from a plurality of network switches in a network, a plurality of health messages from the respective plurality of network switches, wherein a first of the plurality of health messages received from a first of the plurality of network switches includes one or more parameters indicative of the utilization of one or more forwarding tables in the first of the of the plurality of network switches;
- determining, by a network management station based on the received plurality of health messages, a measure of a health of the network;
- determining, based on the determined measure of the health of the network, whether a configuration of the network can be satisfied;
- and
- transmitting, via a communications network, a plurality of configuration messages to the plurality of network switches to adjust a configuration of the network based on the determination.
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A network management station, comprising:
- a receiver that is configured to receive, via a communications network from a plurality of network switches in a network, a plurality of health messages from the respective plurality of network switches, wherein a first of the plurality of health messages received from a first of the plurality of network switches includes one or more parameters indicative of the utilization of one or more forwarding tables in the first of the of the plurality of network switches;
- a controller that is configured to determine, based on the received plurality of health messages, a measure of a health of the network, and to determine, based on the determined measure of the health of the network, whether a configuration of the network can be satisfied;
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- a transmitter that is configured to transmit, via a communications network, a plurality of configuration messages to the plurality of network switches to adjust a configuration of the network based on the determination.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving, via a communications network from a plurality of network switches in a network, a plurality of health messages from the respective plurality of network switches, wherein a first of the plurality of health messages received from a first of the plurality of network switches includes one or more parameters indicative of the utilization of one or more forwarding tables in the first of the of the plurality of network switches;
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- transmitting, via a communications network, a plurality of configuration messages to the plurality of network switches when it is determined that a configuration request of the network can at least partially be satisfied, wherein said determination is based on a measure of a health of the network using the received plurality of health messages.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.