Patent ID: 9077624
Filing Date: 2015-07-07
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer program product for managing a distributed fabric system in which at least one scaled-out fabric coupler (SFC) chassis is connected to at least one distributed line card (DLC) chassis over fabric communication links, each fabric communication link connecting one fabric port of the at least one SFC chassis to one fabric port of the at least one DLC chassis, each fabric communication link including a plurality of lanes by which to carry cells, the computer program product comprising: a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therewith, the computer-readable program code comprising: computer-readable program code configured to collect, by each fabric element chip of each SFC chassis, per-lane statistics for each SFC fabric port of that SFC chassis; computer-readable program code configured to gather the per-lane statistics collected by each fabric element chip of each SFC chassis by a central agent; and computer-readable program code configured to integrate the per-lane statistics gathered by the central agent into a topology of the entire distributed fabric system for presentation by a user interface.