Motorola WS5100 Redundancy Group License Aggregation Rules, Adding a Redundancy Group Member

5-34WS5100 Series Switch System Reference Guide

5.4.2.2Adding a Redundancy Group Member

Use the Add screen as the means to add a new member (by adding their IP address) to an existing redundancy group (cluster).

To add a new member to a redundancy group:

1.Select Services > Redundancy from the main menu tree.

The Redundancy screen displays with the Configuration tab selected.

2.Select the Member tab.

3.Select the Add button.

4.Enter the IP Address of a new member.

5.Click OK to save and add the changes to the running configuration and close the dialog.

6.Refer to the Status field.

The Status is the current state of the requests made from the applet. Requests are any “SET/GET” operation from the applet. The Status field displays error messages if something goes wrong in the transaction between the applet and the switch.

7.Click Cancel to close the dialog without committing updates to the running configuration.

5.4.3Redundancy Group License Aggregation Rules

Refer to the following for the rules governing license usage amongst the members of a redundancy group:

•A redundancy group license is determined by adding individual switch installed license values.

•Do not allow different port speed/duplex settings on sa members. All members should be identical.

•In a redundancy group of three switches (S1, S2 and S3), if S1 has X licenses, S2 has Y licenses and S3 has Z licenses, the license count is X+Y+Z (the aggregation of each switch).

•A cluster license is calculated whenever a new switch brings existing licenses to a group or an existing switch’s license value changes (increases or decreases).

•A simple switch reboot will not initiate a new cluster license calculation, provided the re-booted switch does not come up with different installed license.

•A change to an installed license during runtime will initiate a cluster license calculation.

•If an existing redundancy group member goes down, it will not initiate a cluster license calculation.