Cisco Technology, Inc.

Arvind Prabhudev

Elango Ganesan

Lawrence Rolfe Kreeger

Brian Yoshiaki Uchino

Siva M Vaddepuri

Joe Joseph Karimundackal

In one embodiment, an apparatus obtains a switch port identifier mapping for each of the plurality of ports of a network device, wherein the switch port identifier mapping indicates a port identifier of one of the plurality of ports of the network device and a switch port identifier of a switch port to which the one of the plurality of ports is connected. The apparatus obtains a set of switch information for each of a plurality of switches, the set of switch information including a set of switch port identifiers associated with the corresponding one of the plurality of switches. The apparatus ascertains for each one of the plurality of ports, a corresponding one of the plurality of switches and a port of the one of the plurality of switches to which the one of the plurality of ports is connected.

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Arvind Prabhudev