HP 5120 48G, 5120 SI, 5120 EI manual Connecting the physical IRF ports, To do … Use the command…

•Execute the irf-port-configuration active command to activate the IRF port configuration.

•Execute the display irf configuration command to verify the basic IRF settings.

For more information about configuring basic IRF settings, see the IRF configuration guide for your switch.

Connecting the physical IRF ports

Connect the IRF member switches as planned.

NOTE:

Wear an ESD-preventive wrist strap when you connect the physical IRF ports. For how to connect them, see Pluggable SFP/SFP+/XFP Transceiver Modules Installation Guide.

Accessing the IRF fabric to verify the configuration

To verify the basic functionality of the IRF fabric after you finish configuring basic IRF settings and connecting IRF ports:

1.Log in to the IRF fabric through the console port of any member switch.

2.Create a Layer 3 interface, assign it an IP address, and make sure that the IRF fabric and the remote network management station can reach each other.

3.Use Telnet, web or SNMP to access the IRF fabric from the network management station. See the fundamentals configuration guide for your switch.

4.Check that you can manage all member switches as if they were one node.

5.Display the running status of the IRF fabric by using the commands in Table 13.

Table 13 Display and maintain IRF configuration and running status

To do …	Use the command…
Display information about the IRF fabric	display irf
Display all members’ configurations that take	display irf configuration
effect after switch reboots
Display topology information about the IRF	display irf topology
fabric

NOTE:

To avoid IP address collision and network problems, configure at least one multi-active detection (MAD) mechanism to detect the presence of multiple identical IRF fabrics and handle collisions. For more information about MAD detection, see the IRF configuration guide for your switch.

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