Patent ID: 11909590
Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 17:
18. A network-connected device:
a processor; and
a non-transitory storage medium storing instructions, the instructions executable by the processor that cause the processor to:
receive a Link Layer Discovery Protocol LLDP frame from an interfacing device of a compute node, wherein the received LLDP frame comprises a custom Type-Length-Value (TLV) corresponding to a first configuration of an interfacing device;
communicate an LLDP frame to the interfacing device of a compute node, wherein the communicated LLDP frame comprises a custom Type-Length-Value (TLV) corresponding to a second configuration for the interfacing device;
compare the first configuration with the second configuration, wherein the first configuration corresponds to an existing configuration of the interfacing device and the second configuration corresponds to an expected configuration of the interfacing device; and
in response to a determination that the first configuration does not match the second configuration, communicate to management utilities regarding a mismatch between configurations, and modify a setting of network boot operation for the interfacing device based on information from the LLDP frame.