Patent ID: 9667480
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: at a principal switch in a merged Fibre Channel (FC) fabric comprising the principal switch and a plurality of subordinate switches; collecting, from each of the plurality of subordinate switches, name server information of endpoint devices locally connected to each of the respective plurality of subordinate switches; consolidating the name server information collected from the plurality of subordinate switches at the principal switch to generate consolidated name server information; pushing the consolidated name server information from the principal switch to each of the plurality of subordinate switches; and in response to pushing the consolidated name server information to each of the plurality of subordinate switches, sending a synchronization complete message from the principal switch to each of the plurality of subordinate switches to enable each of the plurality of subordinate switches to update name server databases on each of the other of the plurality of subordinate switches.