Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Sarayu Srinivas Chandrapal

Shaun Wakumoto

Ballard Claude Bare

Ted T Nguyen

Apparatus and methods for determining a switching device and port to which a user selected end-node in a computer network is connected may include receiving an address of a user determined end-node and discovering a switching device that forwards traffic to no other device on the same port as the switching device forwards traffic to the selected end-node. The apparatus and methods may output an address of the discovered switching device and port to the user.

Method and apparatus for determining the switch port to which an end-node device is connected

An apparatus for, and method of, automatically providing network device warranty data to a destination process operating on a server remote from the apparatus are described. A process may comprise authorizing a source process to automatically upload warranty data to the destination process. The source process is then operable, on an automatic basis, to integrate device data stored in a first format into a standard format and transfer the integrated data to the destination process.

Method and apparatus of automatically providing registration information

One embodiment described relates to an automated method of host discovery and path tracing by a network management server. The method includes discovery of a location in the network of a source host, discovery of a location in the network of a destination host, and discovery of a path from the source host to the destination host. Other embodiments are also described.

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Roseville, CA, United States of America

Sarayu Srinivas Chandrapal