ProCurve Stack Management

Configuring Stack Management

Using a Candidate CLI To Manually “Push” the Candidate Into a

Stack . Use this method if any of the following apply:

The Candidate’s Auto Join is set to Yes (and you do not want to enable Auto Grab on the Commander) or the Candidate’s Auto Join is set to No.

Either you know the MAC address of the Commander for the stack into which you want to insert the Candidate, or the Candidate has a valid IP address and is operating in your network.

Syntax: stack join < mac-addr >

where: < mac-addr > is the MAC address of the Commander in the destination stack.

Use Telnet (if the Candidate has an IP address valid for your network) or a direct serial port connection to access the CLI for the Candidate switch. For example, suppose that a Candidate named “North Sea” with Auto Join off and a valid IP address of 10.28.227.104 is running on a network. You could Telnet to the Candidate, use show stack all to determine the Commander’s MAC address, and then “push” the Candidate into the desired stack.

1. Telnet to the Candidate named “North Sea”.

2. Use show stack all to display the Commander’s MAC address.

MAC Address for

Stack Commander

3. Set the Candidate CLI to Config mode

4. Execute stack join with the Commander’s MAC address to “push” the Candidate into the stack.

Figure 7-31. Example of “Pushing” a Candidate Into a Stack

To verify that the Candidate successfully joined the stack, execute show stack all again to view the stacking status.

Using the Destination Commander CLI To “Pull” a Member from Another Stack. This method uses the Commander in the destination stack to “pull” the Member from the source stack.

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