ProCurve Stack Management

Configuring Stack Management

Using the Commander’s Menu To Manually Add a Candidate to a Stack. In the default configuration, you must manually add stack Members from the Candidate pool. Reasons for a switch remaining a Candidate instead of becoming a Member include any of the following:

Auto Grab in the Commander is set to No (the default).

Auto Join in the Candidate is set to No.

Note: When a switch leaves a stack and returns to Candidate status, its Auto Join parameter resets to No so that it will not immediately rejoin a stack from which it has just departed.

A Manager password is set in the Candidate.

The stack is full.

Unless the stack is already full, you can use the Stack Management screen to manually convert a Candidate to a Member. If the Candidate has a Manager password, you will need to use it to make the Candidate a Member of the stack.

1.To add a Member, start at the Main Menu and select:

9.Stacking...4.Stack Management

You will then see the Stack Management screen:

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

Figure 7-9. Example of the Stack Management Screen

2.Press [A] (for Add) to add a Candidate. You will then see this screen listing the available Candidates:

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