Presentation of a selected port

摘要

Back pressure is mapped within a network, and primary bottlenecks are distinguished from dependent bottlenecks. Further, the presently disclosed technology is capable of performing network healing operations designed to reduce the data load on primary bottlenecks while ignoring dependent bottlenecks. Still further, the presently disclosed technology teaches identifying and/or suggesting a switch port for adding a node to the network. More specifically, various implementations analyze traffic load and back pressure in a network, identify primary and dependent bottlenecks, resolve the primary bottlenecks, collect new node parameters, and/or select a switch port for the new node. Further, a command can be sent to a selected switch to activate an indicator on the selected port. New node parameters may include new node type, maximum load, minimum load, time of maximum load, time of minimum load and type of data associated with the new node.

主权项

1. A computing system comprising:
a plurality of switch ports, a first portion of said plurality of ports being connected ports configured for connection to switches in the computing system and at least one of said plurality of ports being an unconnected port capable of connection with a device and not configured as connected to a device; and switch port selector logic configured to select one of said at least one unconnected port based on back pressure mapping, said selected at least one unconnected port including a light source associated with the port, and to provide a command directing that said light source associated with said selected at least one unconnected port be illuminated, wherein back pressure mapping includes an identification of independent back pressure systems present in a network, and wherein a back pressure system includes at least one primary bottlenecked port and all the bottlenecked ports dependent therefrom.