Patent ID: 9674036
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: managing, at a network control entity, a first set of ports from a plurality of ports at a first access switch that hosts the network control entity and is in a switch fabric system, and a second set of ports from the plurality of ports at a second access switch in the switch fabric system, when the switch fabric system is in a first capacity configuration, managing, at the network control entity, the first set of ports and not the second set of ports, when the switch fabric system is in a second capacity configuration, receiving, at the network control entity, a first portion of a configuration file that is associated with the first set of ports when the switch fabric system is in the first capacity configuration, updating a configuration table at the first access switch when the network control entity receives the first portion of the configuration table; receiving, at the network control entity, a second portion of the configuration file that is associated with the first set of ports and the second set of ports when the switch fabric system is in the second capacity configuration; and updating the configuration table at the first access switch when the network control entities receives the second portion of the configuration table.