ProCurve Stack Management

Configuring Stack Management

Default stacking configuration (Stack State set to Candidate, and Auto Join set to Yes)

Same subnet (broadcast domain) and default VLAN as the Commander (If VLANs are used in the stack environment, see “Stacking Operation with a Tagged VLAN” on page 7-46.)

No Manager password

14 or fewer stack members at the moment

General Steps for Creating a Stack

This section describes the general stack creation process. For the detailed configuration processes, see pages 7-14through 7-38for the menu interface and pages 7-31through 7-43for the CLI.

1.Determine the naming conventions for the stack. You will need a stack name. Also, to help distinguish one switch from another in the stack, you can configure a unique system name for each switch. Otherwise, the system name for a switch appearing in the Stacking Status screen appears as the stack name plus an automatically assigned switch number. For example:

For status descriptions, see the table on page 7-48.

Stack with unique system name for each switch.

Stack named "Online" with no previously configured system names assigned to individual switches.

Figure 7-4. Using the System Name to Help Identify Individual Switches

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