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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016

Filed:

May. 14, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventor:

Aaron S. Palazzolo, Tucson, AZ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 12/931 (2013.01); H04L 12/46 (2006.01); H04L 12/947 (2013.01); H04L 12/64 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 49/00 (2013.01); H04L 12/4641 (2013.01); H04L 12/4675 (2013.01); H04L 12/6418 (2013.01); H04L 49/25 (2013.01); H04L 61/2007 (2013.01);
Abstract

An approach for autonomous multi-node network configuration and self-awareness is provided. In the approach, a network switch receives a configuration of a switch port group. The switch port group comprises ports configured for a cloud cluster, the cloud cluster comprises nodes, and respective ones of the nodes are connected to respective ones of the ports. In the approach, the network switch receives from one of the nodes a request for information of the switch port group, and sends to the one of the nodes the information of the switch port group. In the approach, the information of the switch port group is stored by the one of the nodes, used by the one of the nodes to assign IP and VLAN addresses to the nodes in the cloud cluster, and used by the one of the nodes to establish a topology of the cloud cluster.


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