Patent ID: 11956164
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a network manager, from a network management user interface, a configuration for an additional switch of a switch stack, wherein the network management user interface is a web form delivered to a client device that is remote from the network manager;
receiving, by the network manager, from a conductor switch of the switch stack, an active configuration;
determining, by the network manager, based on the active configuration, switch model types for a plurality of switches of the switch stack, including a switch model type of the additional switch;
determining, by the network manager, based on the switch model types and the active configuration, a number of ports of the plurality of switches of the switch stack, including a number of ports of the additional switch, and a current configuration of each port of each switch of the switch stack;
updating, by the network manager, a device configuration element of the network management user interface to display the current configuration of each port of each switch of the switch stack in a manner that indicates that the switch stack is a single logical switch; and
upon the conductor switch experiencing a failure, preserving the device configuration element and replacing the conductor switch with a backup conductor switch of the switch stack, wherein replacing the conductor switch with the backup conductor switch comprises migrating the active configuration to the backup conductor switch.