Patent ID: 8145732

Claim:
A method, comprising: in response to notification of a configuration event yet to happen within a network that is part of a link-based computing system, executing the following at a component within said link based computing system: a) identifying networking configuration information changes to be made by components within said link-based computing system, said components being located at different destinations on said network; b) sending a spanning tree description that reflects the respective change of instances of executable program code which describes at least a portion of said network after said event; c) sending of said instances of executable program code to each one of said components and waiting for confirmation of successful reception of each of said instances of executable program code at its respective one of said components, each of said instances of executable program code to be executed by its respective component, and, being customized to implement at least one of said networking configuration information changes from said respective component; d) after confirming that each one of said instances of executable program code has been successfully received at its respective one of said components sending a start command to each one of said components to begin executing its respective one of said instances of program code so that each one of said components can implement its one or more respective networking configuration information changes in view of its respective description of the network after the event.