Patent ID: 8547825
Filing Date: 2013-10-01
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A system of reduced wiring, the system comprising: a midplane including at least part of a fabric interconnect of a switch fabric; one or more server cards communicably connected to the midplane; a plurality of switch modules of the switch fabric and communicably connected to the midplane, each switch module configured to switch network traffic associated with at least one of the one or more server cards; and a management controller configured to, by operation of one or more computer processors, manage the plurality of switch modules via the fabric interconnect and not via any independent management interconnect between the management controller and the plurality of switch modules, thereby avoiding wiring within the system otherwise required for the independent management interconnect; wherein managing the plurality of switch modules comprises, upon determining that at least one switch module has failed, facilitating replacement of the at least one switch module without requiring a restart of the system and without requiring a restart of the switch fabric.