Patent ID: 11886280
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 12:
13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, upon being executed by one or more processors of a system, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
receive, by a first network device of the system, a first error associated with the first network device;
generate, by the first network device, one or more first frames including first data indicative of the first error;
broadcast, by the first network device, the one or more first frames to one or more neighboring network devices;
determine, after the broadcast, that the first network device is unresponsive;
present the first data in response to a request to a second network device among the one or more neighboring network devices;
configure, by a network management system, an interval at which a plurality of network devices transmit frames that include device error data to neighboring network devices; wherein the one or more first frames are broadcast prior to loading of an operating system of the first network device.