Line-card disabling for power management
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsPriya Mahadevan, Puneet Sharma
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Abstract
A power management apparatus is configured to manage a switch having line-cards with ports. The management apparatus includes a tracking module configured to track activity for each port in a line-card in the switch, and a control module configured to determine whether the line-card is to be disabled. The management apparatus also includes output module configured to initiate a deactivation process for the line-card if all the ports are inactive.
Claims23
A power management apparatus to manage a switch having a plurality of slots wherein line-cards are operable to be plugged into the plurality of slots, each line-card having at least one port, wherein the management apparatus includes a computer system comprising:
- a tracking module to track activity for each port in a line-card plugged into a slot in the switch;
- a control module to determine whether all the ports in the line-card are inactive;
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- an output module to automatically initiate a deactivation process for the line-card when all the ports in the line-card are inactive.
A method of managing power consumption of a switch, the method comprising:
- tracking activity of all ports on a line-card;
- determining whether all the ports on the line-card are inactive;
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- automatically initiating, with a processor, deactivation of the line-card when all the ports in the line-card are inactive.
A network switch comprising:
- a plurality of slots structured to respectively receive line-cards;
- a tracking module to track non-activity of ports in a line-card plugged into a slot in the switch;
- a control module to determine whether the line-card is to be deactivated based on whether all the ports are inactive;
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- an output module to automatically initiate a deactivation process for the line-card when all the ports in the line-card are inactive.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.