Real-time Cable Validation in Large and Scalable Networks

One or more non-transitory computer readable media comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more hardware processors, cause performance of operations comprising:

• iteratively monitoring connections between devices being added in a network;
• determining, at a first iteration, that a first connection between a first device and a second device has been added since a second iteration, preceding the first iteration, of monitoring the connections;
• measuring a signal value associated with a signal characteristic for one or more signals transmitted between the first device and the second device;
• responsive to determining that the first connection has been added, comparing the measured signal value to an expected value for the signal characteristic;
• and
• responsive at least to determining that the measured signal value does not satisfy a criterion with respect to the expected value, outputting information indicating an error associated with the first connection between the first device and the second device.

A system comprising:

• one or more hardware processors;
• one or more non-transitory computer-readable media;
• and
• program instructions stored on the one or more non-transitory computer-readable media that, when executed by the one or more hardware processors, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
• iteratively monitoring connections between devices being added in a network;
• determining, at a first iteration, that a first connection between a first device and a second device has been added since a second iteration, preceding the first iteration, of monitoring the connections;
• measuring a signal value associated with a signal characteristic for one or more signals transmitted between the first device and the second device;
• responsive to determining that the first connection has been added, comparing the measured signal value to an expected value for the signal characteristic;
• and
• responsive at least to determining that the measured signal value does not satisfy a criterion with respect to the expected value, outputting information indicating an error associated with the first connection between the first device and the second device.