ProCurve Stack Management

 

 

 

 

 

Operation

 

Specific Rules

 

 

 

Table 7-2. Specific Rules for Commander, Candidate, and Member Switch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IP Addressing and

Number Allowed

Passwords

 

SNMP Communities

 

Stack Name

Per Stack

 

 

 

Commander

IP Addr: Requires an

Only one

The Commander’s Manager

 

StandardSNMPcommunity

 

assigned IP address

Commander

and Operator passwords are

 

operation. The Commander

 

and mask for access

switch is allowed

assigned to any switch

 

also operates as an SNMP

 

via the network.

per stack.

becoming a Member of the

 

proxy to Members for all

 

Stack Name: Required

 

stack.

 

SNMP communities config-

 

 

 

If you change the

 

ured in the Commander.

 

 

 

Commander’s passwords, the

 

 

 

 

 

Commander propagates the

 

 

 

 

 

new passwords to all stack

 

 

 

 

 

Members.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Candidate

IP Addr: Optional.

n/a

Passwords optional. If the

 

Uses standard SNMP

 

Configuring an IP

 

Candidate becomes a stack

 

community operation if the

 

address allows access

 

Member, it assumes the

 

Candidate has its own IP

 

via Telnet or Web

 

Commander’s Manager and

 

addressing.

 

browser interface

 

Operator passwords.

 

 

 

while the switch is not

 

 

 

 

 

a stack member. In the

 

If a candidate has a password,

 

 

 

factory default configu-

 

 

 

 

 

it cannot be automatically

 

 

 

ration the switch auto-

 

 

 

 

 

added to a stack. In this case,

 

 

 

matically acquires an

 

 

 

 

 

if you want the Candidate in a

 

 

 

IP address if your

 

 

 

 

 

stack, you must manually add

 

 

 

networkincludesDHCP

 

 

 

 

 

it to the stack.

 

 

 

service.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stack Name: N/A

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Member

IP Addr: Optional.

Up to 15 Members

When the switch joins the

 

Belongs to the same SNMP

 

Configuring an IP

per stack.

stack, it automatically

 

communities as the

 

address allows access

 

assumes the Commander’s

 

Commander (which serves

 

via Telnet or Web

 

Manager and Operator pass-

 

as an SNMP proxy to the

 

browser interface

 

words and discards any pass-

 

Member for communities to

 

without going through

 

words it may have had while a

 

which the Commander

 

theCommanderswitch.

 

Candidate.

 

belongs). To join other

 

This is useful, for

 

 

 

communities that exclude

 

example, if the stack

 

Note: If a Member leaves a

 

the Commander, the

 

Commander fails and

 

 

Member must have its own

 

 

stack for any reason, it retains

 

 

you need to convert a

 

the passwords assigned to the

 

IP address. Loss of stack

 

Member switch to

 

stack Commander at the time

 

membership means loss of

 

operate as a replace-

 

 

membership in any commu-

 

 

of departure from the stack.

 

 

ment Commander.

 

 

nity that is configured only

 

 

 

 

 

Stack Name: N/A

 

 

 

in the Commander. See

“SNMP Community Operation in a Stack” on page 7-45.

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