Management of a distributed fabric system

摘要

A distributed fabric system has distributed line card (DLC) chassis and scaled-out fabric coupler (SFC) chassis. Each DLC includes a network processor and fabric ports. Each network processor of each DLC includes a fabric interface in communication with the fabric ports of that DLC. Each SFC includes at least one fabric element and SFC fabric ports. A fabric communication link connects each SFC fabric port to one DLC fabric port. Each fabric communication link includes cell-carrying lanes. Each fabric element of each SFC detects connectivity between each SFC fabric port of that SFC and one DLC fabric port over a fabric communication link. Each SFC includes program code that reads connectivity matrix from fabric element chips and sends connection information corresponding to the detected connectivity from that SFC to a central agent. A network element includes the central agent, which, when executed, constructs a topology of the distributed fabric system from the connection information sent from each SFC.

主权项

1. A computer program product for managing a distributed fabric system in which a plurality of scaled-out fabric coupler (SFC) chassis is connected to each distributed line card (DLC) chassis of a plurality of DLC chassis over fabric communication links, each fabric communication link including a plurality of lanes for carrying cells, the computer program product comprising:
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therewith, the computer-readable program code comprising: computer-readable program code configured to detect, by a fabric element chip of each SFC chassis, connectivity between the fabric element chip of that SFC chassis and a fabric interface of a switching chip of one of the DLC chassis of the plurality of DLC chassis; computer-readable program code configured to send connection information corresponding to the detected connectivity from each SFC chassis to a central agent; and computer-readable program code configured to construct a topology of the distributed fabric system from the connection information sent to the central agent by each SFC chassis.