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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2015
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Joan Xiong, Shanghai, CN;
Jia Xin, Shanghai, CN;
Xi Chen, Shanghai, CN;
Donald Mace, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Xiaoye Jiang, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A plurality of network cables are physically connected to a plurality of network ports on an appliance, wherein the appliance comprises a plurality of nodes each associated with a corresponding chassis slot position in which the node is located within a chassis of the appliance and each node having at least one management network port and one host network port. A network address is identified for each of the plurality of network ports. A first subset of network addresses is identified as being associated with a management network port and a second subset of network addresses is identified as being associated with a host network port based at least in part on a respective response received from each network address to a management request using a management interface protocol. For each management network port, a corresponding chassis slot position is associated with that management network port based at least in part on a response to a slot request using the management interface protocol. For each host network port, a corresponding chassis slot position is associated with that host network port based at least in part on a response to an identification request using the management interface protocol.