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OmniSwitch 6600 Family | Availability Features |
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Availability Features
The switch provides a broad variety of Availability features. Availability features are hardware- and
•Smart Continuous Switching
•Software Rollback
•Hot Swapping
•Hardware Monitoring
Smart Continuous Switching
In stacked configurations, one OmniSwitch 6600 Family switch is designated as the primary “manage- ment module” for the stack. Because the stack can be thought of as a virtual chassis, the role of this primary management switch is to monitor and manage the functions of the stack.
Similar to
All other switches in the stack are considered idle, and act very much like Ethernet Network Interface (ENI) modules in OS7700 and OS7800 switches, in that they provide Ethernet ports for 10/100 traffic.
The stack provides support for all idle switches during
Incoming Layer 2 packets will continue to be sent to the appropriate egress port during failover. Spanning Tree will continue handling BPDUs received on the switch ports, as well as port link up and down states. The Spanning Tree topology will not be disrupted.
Note. Smart Continuous Switching is designed to maintain data flow only during primary/secondary switch failover and is not intended to support
For more information on primary, secondary, and idle switches, as well as the failover process, refer to Chapter 4, “Managing OmniSwitch 6600 Family Stacks.”
OmniSwitch 6600 Family Hardware Users Guide September 2006 | page |