Method of identifying and managing an electronic device

• US 20050125527A1
• Filed: 06/15/2004
• Published: 06/09/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tatung Company
• Original Assignee: Tatung Company
• Inventors: Lu, Ming-Yih, Tzeng, Huang-Lung
• Application Number:
  US10/866,749
• Publication Number:
  US 20050125527A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/00 Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 49/351 for local area network [LAN], e.g. Ethernet switches

Abstract

An electronic device has a user interface to control operations of at least one Ethernet network switch in a computer device to manage networking operations of the computer device. Connecting ports provided by the Ethernet network switch are divided into one or more types; ID codes are set to correspond to the types; sequentially different ID codes are assigned to the corresponding types of ports, and the ID codes are displayed on the user interface. The connecting ports provided by the Ethernet network switch are connected to at least one server blade, at least one management module or at least one network switch, and the user interface is a text-based user interface.

Claims

1. A method of identifying and managing network operations of an electronic device via a user interface in order to control operations of at least one Ethernet network switch in the electronic device, the method comprising:

dividing at least one communication port provided by the at least one Ethernet network switch into at least one type;

assigning at least one ID code to correspond to the at least one type; and

assigning at least one sequentially different ID code to the corresponding type of the communication port and displaying the at least one ID code on the user interface;

wherein the at least one communication port provided by the at least one Ethernet network switch is connected to at least one server blade, at least one management module or at least one Ethernet network switch, and the user interface is a text interface.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electronic device is a blade server.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user interface is placed in a terminal and the terminal uses a communications interface to communicate with the computer device.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the communication interface is an RS-232 interface, a network communication interface, or a USB interface.