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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2002
Richard L. Hammons, Hollister, CA (US);
James Kleinsteiber, San Jose, CA (US);
Hung Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Shankar Balasubramanian, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vidya Renganarayanan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Richard L. Hammons, Hollister, CA (US);
James Kleinsteiber, San Jose, CA (US);
Hung Nguyen, San Jose, CA (US);
Shankar Balasubramanian, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vidya Renganarayanan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A network configuration device or entity has control of defined management and security functions in the network, or in many embodiments, in a Fiber Channel fabric. The network configuration device may control many functions. Foremost, it may control the recognition, operation and succession procedure for network configuration entities. It may also control user configurable options for the network, rules for interaction between other entities in the network, rules governing management-level access to the network, and rules governing management-level access to individual devices in the network. In addition, the network configuration entity may exploit policy sets to implement its control.