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HP Procurve Stack Management
HP Procurve Stack Management
HP Procurve Stack
Management
General Steps for Creating a Stack
This section describes the general stack creation process. For the detailed
configuration processes, see pages 13-14 through 13-38 for the menu interfac e
and pages 13-31 through 13-43 for 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:
Figure 13-4. Use of System Name to Help Identify Individual Switches
2. Configure the Commander switch. Doing this first helps to establish
consistency in your stack configuration, which can help prevent startup
problems.
•A stack requires one Commander switch. If you plan to implement
more than one stack in a subnet (broadcast domain), the easiest
way to avoid unintentionally adding a Candidate to the wrong
stack is to manually control the joining process by leaving the
Commander’s Auto Grab parameter set to No (the default).
•The Commander assigns its Manager and Operator passwords to
any Candidate switch that joins the stack.
•SNMP community names used in the Commander apply to stack
members.
Stack with unique
system name for each
switch.
Stack named "Online"
with no previously
configured system
names assigned to
individual switches.
For status
descriptions, see the
table on page 13-48.