Patent ID: 8854980
Filing Date: 2014-10-07
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A fiber channel switch line replaceable module comprising: an embedded trace buffer memory disposed on the line replaceable module; a fabric crossbar constituted by a programmable logic device configured as a fabric crossbar, disposed on the line replaceable module and coupled to the embedded trace buffer memory; and a processor disposed on the line replaceable module and coupled to the fabric crossbar, the fabric crossbar including a network level monitoring section having simultaneous access to traffic flowing among all nodes connected to the fiber channel switch, the monitoring section being configured to monitor network traffic and to detect a trigger event in network traffic between a first node and a second node, in response to detection of the trigger event, to capture data from network traffic between a third node and fourth node, the first, second, third, and fourth nodes all being different than each other.