Controller election

摘要

A method of controller election includes, upon failure of a master controller within a team comprising a number of controllers, automatically promoting another of the number controllers to serve as an elected master controller and designating the elected master controller as a new master controller if it is determined that the failure of the master controller is not temporary.

主权项

1. A method of controller election comprising:
in a team of a number of controllers comprising a master controller, and a number of slave controllers, providing to an administrator access to monitor and configure the team of controllers through the master controller; determining that the master controller has failed; and in response to the determining, automatically promoting another controller of the team of controllers to serve as an elected master controller, and not providing to the administrator access to configure the team of controllers through the elected master controller until the master controller is determined to have permanently failed, and wherein each of the controllers in the team of controllers comprises a device that configures and manages an access point (AP) in a network.