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

Claim 0:
1. A network manager, comprising processing circuitry and a memory including instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the network manager to:
receive, from a conductor switch of a switch stack, an active configuration;
determine, based on the active configuration, switch model types for a plurality of switches of the switch stack;
determine, based on the switch model types and the active configuration, a number of ports of the plurality of switches of the switch stack and a current configuration of each port of each switch of the switch stack;
update a device configuration element of a 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, wherein the network management user interface is a web form delivered to a client device that is remote from the network manager; and
upon the conductor switch experiencing a failure, preserve the device configuration element and replace 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.