
Fast EtherHub 3500 System User’s Guide
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Multiple Agents
You may include multiple agents in a stack. To provide a fail- safe backup management agent, include it in the same segment with the Master agent. You may also use several active agents in the same stack. However, they must be attached to different segments and have unique IP addresses.
SNMP Backup Agent
The Fast EtherHub 3500 system supports a backup function for the management agent. This special function allows the stack to have two or more SNMP network management agents attached to the same segment, wherein one agent is configured as the Master agent and the other(s) as a Slave (i.e., Backup) agent.
The agent in slave mode behaves as a Fast
Note: Placing redundant agents in a segment will cause the system to set the agent with longest
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