US 11,956,164 B2
Remote management of a switch stack
Aslam Khan, Santa Clara, CA (US); Khiruthigai Balasubramanian, Santa Clara, CA (US); and Suhas Kumar Bharadwaj, Bangalore Karnataka (IN)
Assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Spring, TX (US)
Filed by Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, Houston, TX (US)
Filed on Apr. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/661,482.
Prior Publication US 2023/0353506 A1, Nov. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 49/111 (2022.01); H04L 49/112 (2022.01); H04L 49/20 (2022.01); H04L 49/354 (2022.01); H04L 49/65 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 49/111 (2022.05) [H04L 49/112 (2022.05); H04L 49/208 (2013.01); H04L 49/354 (2013.01); H04L 49/65 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A network manager, comprising processing circuitry and a memory including instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the network manager to:
receive, from a conductor switch of a switch stack, an active configuration;
determine, based on the active configuration, switch model types for a plurality of switches of the switch stack;
determine, based on the switch model types and the active configuration, a number of ports of the plurality of switches of the switch stack and a current configuration of each port of each switch of the switch stack;
update a device configuration element of a network management user interface to display the current configuration of each port of each switch of the switch stack in a manner that indicates that the switch stack is a single logical switch, wherein the network management user interface is a web form delivered to a client device that is remote from the network manager; and
upon the conductor switch experiencing a failure, preserve the device configuration element and replace the conductor switch with a backup conductor switch of the switch stack, wherein replacing the conductor switch with the backup conductor switch comprises migrating the active configuration to the backup conductor switch.