Patent ID: 9747032
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: Determining, by a computing device, a shelf identifier of a storage device shelf in which a network storage device installed; Determining, by the computing device, a stack identifier associated with a network communication path of the storage device shelf in which the network storage device is installed and coupled to the network communication path, wherein the determining of the stack identifier further comprises querying, by the computing device, a table using the shelf identifier to determine when a corresponding entry exist that specifies the stack identifier, querying, by the computing device, the table to determine when each storage device shelf coupled to a given stack maps to a single stack identifier; and updating, by the computing device, the table to assign a new stack identifier to each storage device shelf coupled to the given stack, when the determining indicates that each storage device shelf coupled to the given stack does not map to a single stack identifier; and Constructing, by the computing device, a device name for the network storage device based on the shelf identified and the stack identifier.