Cisco Technology, Inc.

Siddartha Gundeti

Srinivas Pitta

Shrawan Chittoor Surender

Satish Kumar Kondalam

Somnath Roy

Arkadiy Shapiro

Narayanaswami Ganapathy

Pankaj Kumar Rai

Presented herein are systems, and methods thereof, that is configured to enter a maintenance mode to isolate itself from its neighbor and to gracefully cause neighbor devices to isolate themselves from the system, as to cause minimal or 'zero' service disruption with its neighbors. The system broadcasts a maintenance-related message, via a standard transport layer, over routing protocols, to counter parts protocols at the neighbor device and waits for an acknowledgement message from the neighbor network devices. The broadcast and acknowledgement, through standard transport layer messaging, ensures that traffic generated by such protocols at the neighbor devices, regardless of manufacturer, are redirected before the system fully enters into the maintenance mode.

Methods and systems for neighbor-acknowledged graceful insertion/removal protocol

Methods and systems are provided for link health forecasting to determine potential link failures such that remedial action may be taken prior to any data loss or degradation. DDM/DOM information may be used in conjunction with OAM protocols to monitor and predict link health degradation for faster failovers or self healing.

Link health forecast&#x2014;predictive Ethernet link monitoring using DOM with ELOAM

Methods and systems for configuring a local switch and a remote switch configured as peers. The method includes: receiving a configuration for configuring the local switch and the remote switch; checking if resources are available for the configuration on the local switch; when resources are available on the local switch, reserving those resources; checking if resources are available for the configuration of the remote switch; when resources are available on the remote switch, reserving those resources; and applying the configuration to the local switch and the remote switch when resources are available on the local switch and the remote switch.

Method and apparatus to predict configuration viability and dynamically manage multi-dimensional system scale in MSDC switches

Link health forecast&#x2014;predictive ethernet link monitoring using DOM with ELOAM

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