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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2014
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Rabah S. Hamdi, Spring, TX (US);
Christopher Stephen Petrick, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
An access point IHS group controller failover system includes a first access point IHS group controller that controls a first access point IHS group that includes plurality of access point IHSs. Following a failure of the first access point IHS group controller, the first access point IHS broadcasts a first access point IHS identifier to a first subset of the plurality of access point IHSs. The first access point IHS then registers the first subset of the plurality of access point IHSs as members of a second access point IHS group, and controls at least some functions of the second access point IHS group. When the first access point IHS detects activity from the first access point IHS group controller, it instructs the first subset of the plurality of access point IHSs in the second access point IHS group to reconnect to the first access point IHS group controller.