Configuring Advanced Features

HP ProCurve Stack Management

The Commander appears in the stack as Switch

Number (SN) 0.

The stack commander command configures the Commander and names the stack.

Figure 9-26. Example of the Commander’s Show Stack Screen with Only the

Commander Discovered

Using a Member’s CLI to Convert the Member to the Commander of a

New Stack. This procedure requires that you first remove the Member from its current stack, then create the new stack. If you do not know the MAC address for the Commander of the current stack, use show stack to list it.

Syntax: no stack

stack commander <stack name>

Suppose, for example, that a Switch 2512 named “Bering Sea” is a Member of a stack named “Big_Waters”. To use the switch’s CLI to convert it from a stack Member to the Commander of a new stack named “Lakes”, you would use the following commands:

Features

Advanced Configuring

 

 

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