Method and device for managing network equipment

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a method and device for managing network equipment, including: setting the network equipment as a management equipment in response to a first login instruction; periodically sending broadcast messages; wherein, the broadcast messages include: the MAC address of the management equipment; receiving The first broadcast response message sent by the member device; wherein, the first broadcast response message is a message sent to the management device according to the MAC address of the management device when the member device does not record any management device identification information locally. A broadcast response message includes: the MAC address of the member device; when the member device information is not recorded in the management domain, add the member device to the management domain, wherein the management domain is used to store the member devices that the management device can manage and the member device information MAC address. The network device management method and device according to the embodiments of the present disclosure can realize the management and active control of the member devices by the management device, and improve the management efficiency of the network devices in the local area network.

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technical field [0001] The present disclosure relates to the field of communication technologies, and in particular, to a method and device for managing network equipment. Background technique [0002] A network environment may include multiple network devices. For example, a network environment may include: network devices of the same type from the same manufacturer, network devices of different types from the same manufacturer, network devices from different manufacturers, and so on. Since the above-mentioned network devices in a network environment have different configurations and are physically isolated from each other, it is very inconvenient to manage the network devices in the network environment. [0003] In order to realize the management of network devices in the network environment, the industry has proposed LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol, Link Layer Discovery Protocol). Network devices located in the same network environment can share their own information ...

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[0004] However, in the actual products of various manufacturers, not all devices support LLDP. Even if the devices support LLDP, because the messages published by the protocol are not the same, the information exchanged between the devices is different, resulting in management difficulties.

Moreover, the above-mentioned network device management scheme is based on the network device automatically sending its own information to directly connected neighbor devices to realize the management of the network device. The sending and receiving of packets in the network environment is uncontrollable, and it is impossible to control the active network device, for example: It is impossible to actively modify the management address of the network device. When the user needs to modify the configuration of the network device, the network administrator needs to operate on each network device, resulting in low management efficiency of the network device.

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