公开(公告)号：US10797959B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-06

申请号：US15798951

申请日：2017-10-31

Applicant: QUANTA COMPUTER INC.

Inventor： Ching-Chih Shih ,  Ching-He Huang

IPC: G06F15/16 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04L12/26 ,  G06F1/3206 ,  G06F1/28

Abstract: What is disclosed is a system and method to use discovery packets, such as in an LLDP message, for determining operational status of a rack system. A network device is connected to the port of a switch. Operational data may be sent or received via a discovery packet to the network device. The operational data may be determined by a management agent on the network device and sent to a management controller via the discovery packet. The operational data may be determined by the management controller and sent to the network device.