ProCurve Stack Management

Configuring Stack Management

Using the Commander’s CLI To Manually Add a Candidate to the

Stack. To manually add a candidate, you will use:

■A switch number (SN) to assign to the new member. Member SNs range from 1 to 15. To see which SNs are already assigned to Members, use show stack view. You can use any SN not included in the listing. (SNs are viewable only on a Commander switch.)

■The MAC address of the discovered Candidate you are adding to the stack. To see this data, use the show stack candidates listing.

For example:

In this stack, the only SNs in use are 0 and 1, so you can use any SN number from 2 through 15 for new Members. (The SN of “0” is always reserved for the stack Commander.)

Note: When manually adding a switch, you must assign an SN. However, if the Commander automatically adds a new Member, it assigns an SN from the available pool of unused SNs.

Figure 8-28. Example of How To Determine Available Switch Numbers (SNs)

To display all discovered Candidates with their MAC addresses, execute show stack candidates from the Commander’s CLI. For example, to list the discov­ ered candidates for the above Commander:

MAC addresses of discovered Candidates.

Figure 8-29. Example of How To Determine MAC Addresses of Discovered Candidates

Knowing the available switch numbers (SNs) and Candidate MAC addresses, you can proceed to manually assign a Candidate to be a Member of the stack:

Syntax: stack member < switch-number> mac-address < mac-addr > [ password < password-str > ]

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