Fabric management devices

A machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by a processing resource of a fabric management device to manage a network fabric, the machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions to:

• establish communication between the fabric management device and a network device of the network fabric via a fabric management device driver;
• discover a topology of the network fabric, wherein the network fabric comprises a plurality of network devices;
• statically configure the network device;
• monitor a set of network performance metrics of the plurality of network devices;
• and
• based on the set of network performance metrics, dynamically configure the network fabric.

A system comprising:

• a fabric management device driver for a network device of a network fabric;
• and
• a fabric management device to manage the network fabric, the fabric management device comprising:
• a serial interface to connect to the network device, wherein the serial interface provides power and data to the fabric management device;
• a processing resource;
• and
• a machine-readable storage medium encoded with instructions executable by the processing resource, the machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions to:
• establish a secure tunnel between the fabric management device and the network device across the serial interface and via the fabric management device driver;
• monitor a set of network performance metrics of a plurality of network devices, wherein the network fabric comprises a plurality of network devices;
• and
• based on the set of network performance metrics, dynamically configure the network fabric.

A method of managing a network fabric, the method comprising:

• establishing a secure tunnel between a fabric management device and a network device of a network fabric, the secure tunnel being established via a fabric management device driver and across a serial interface through which the fabric management device connects to the network device and receives power and data;
• discovering, by the fabric management device, a topology of the network fabric, wherein the network fabric comprises a plurality of network devices;
• monitoring, by the fabric management device, a set of network performance metrics of the plurality of network devices;
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• based on the set of network performance metrics, dynamically configuring the network fabric by the fabric management device.