Disclosed are systems and methods for persisting management information
indexes across multiple network elements. In particular, methods of
detecting and curing potential collisions among a peer group of network
elements by use of a hashing function can be provided in accordance with
embodiments. For example, a method for maintaining persistence across
network elements can include: (i) configuring one of the network
elements, and providing a configuration string therefrom; (ii) performing
a hashing algorithm on the configuration string to provide a hash value;
(iii) determining if any collisions exists between the hash value and
corresponding values from among a peer group of network elements; and
(iv) assigning the hash value as a management table index when no
collision is found, or assigning a new value for the management table
index when a collision is found.