HP ProCurve 2500 Using the Menu To Manage a Candidate Switch

Configuring Advanced Features

HP ProCurve Stack Management

•No (the default) prevents automatic joining of Candidates that have their Auto Join set to Yes.

•Yes enables the Commander to automatically take a Candidate into the stack as a Member if the Candidate has Auto Join set to Yes (the default Candidate setting) and does not have a previously configured password.

8.Accept or change the transmission interval (default: 60 seconds), then press [Enter] to return the cursor to the Actions line.

9.Press [S] (for Save) to save your configuration changes and return to the Stacking menu.

Your Commander switch should now be ready to automatically or manually acquire Member switches from the list of discovered Candidates, depending on your configuration choices.

Using the Menu To Manage a Candidate Switch

Using the menu interface, you can perform these actions on a Candidate switch:

■Add (“push”) the Candidate into an existing stack

■Modify the Candidate’s stacking configuration (Auto Join and Transmission Interval)

■Convert the Candidate to a Commander

■Disable stacking on the Candidate so that it operates as a standalone switch

In its default stacking configuration, a Candidate switch can either automatically join a stack or be manually added ("pulled") into a stack by a Commander, depending on the Commander’s Auto Grab setting. The following table lists the Candidate’s configuration options:

Features Advanced Configuring

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