Cisco Systems WSC4507RE96V manual Configuring Supervisor Engine Redundancy

Chapter 6 Configuring Supervisor Engine Redundancy on the Catalyst 4507R and 4510R Switches

Configuring Supervisor Engine Redundancy

•With supervisor engine redundancy enabled, the supervisor engines may run different releases of Cisco IOS software if both releases are Cisco IOS Release 12.1(12c)EW or later.

•The Forwarding Information Base (FIB) tables are cleared on a switchover. As a result, routed traffic is interrupted until route tables reconverge.

•Static IP routes are maintained across a switchover because they are configured from entries in the configuration file.

•Information about dynamic states maintained on the active supervisor engine is not synchronized to the standby supervisor engine and is lost on switchover. Dynamic state information (such as border gateway protocol [BGP] session information) is lost at switchover.

•The Catalyst 4507R switch and the 4510R switches are the only Catalyst 4500 series switch that support supervisor engine redundancy.

•The Catalyst 4510R switch supports the WS-X4516 supervisor engine only. The Catalyst 4507R switch supports the other redundant supervisor engines (Supervisor Engine II-Plus and Supervisor Engine IV and WS-X4516). Do not mix and match different supervisor models in a redundancy configuration.

•The active and standby supervisor engines must be in slots 1 and 2.

•Both the active and standby supervisor engines must support redundancy (Supervisor Engine II-Plus, Supervisor Engine IV, and Supervisor Engine V). Earlier versions are not supported.

•Each supervisor engine must have the resources to run the switch on its own, which means that each supervisor engine has its own Flash device and console port connections.

•Make separate console connections to each supervisor engine. Do not connect a Y cable to the console ports.

•You must set the configuration register in the startup-config to autoboot. (See the “Modifying the Boot Field” section on page 3-21.)

•With redundancy enabled, the supervisor engines can run different releases of Cisco IOS software provided both releases are Release 12.1(12c)EW or later.

Note There is no support for booting from the network.

If these requirements are met, the switch functions in RPR mode by default.

Configuring Supervisor Engine Redundancy

Supervisor engine redundancy is configured by default when a second supervisor engine is detected.

This example shows how to display the redundancy state:

Switch#show redundancy states

my state = 13 -ACTIVE peer state = 4 -STANDBY COLD

Mode = Duplex

Unit = Primary Unit ID = 1

Redundancy Mode (Operational) = RPR

Redundancy Mode (Configured) = RPR

Split Mode = Disabled

Manual Swact = Enabled

Communications = Up

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