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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2008
Stephen R. Burrow, Austin, TX (US);
Alan Monarchi, Red Hook, NY (US);
Stephen R. Burrow, Austin, TX (US);
Alan Monarchi, Red Hook, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer program product for subnet management discovery of point-to-point network topologies includes a tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method. The method includes discovering a local portion of a subnet representing the point-to-point network, the discovering facilitated by a coupling subnet manager configured to act as a master subnet manager on the local portion of the subnet, interpreting a state of a physical port associated with the coupling subnet manager, and discovering a remote portion of the subnet physically connected to the physical port based on the interpreting.