US 7,334,033 B2
Fabric membership monitoring
Michael D. Stimac, Pacifica, Calif. (US)
Assigned to Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, Calif. (US)
Filed on Jan. 31, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/356,389.
Prior Publication US 2004/0153540 A1, Aug. 05, 2004
Int. Cl. G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 15/177 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/28 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 709—224  [709/220; 709/223; 370/241; 370/252; 370/254] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A fabric membership monitoring method that comprises: determining a polling list of switches; for each current switch in the polling list of switches: obtaining a list of sister switches from the current switch; associating the current switch with a new kith if the current switch is not already associated with a kith; identifying any of the sister switches associated with different kiths and merging said different kiths with the kith of the current switch; and associating each of the sister switches with the kith of the current switch determining a fabric membership based on one or more of the kiths, and, displaying the fabric membership.