Advanced Traffic Management Guide K/KA/KB.15.15

Viewing the status of all stack-enabled switches discovered in the IP subnet ..................................264
Viewing the status of the Commander and current members of the Commander’s stack..................265
Viewing stack status and configuring a Commander switch (Menu)..............................................265
Configuring a Commander switch...........................................................................................266
Making a switch a Commander..............................................................................................267
Using a Member’s CLI to convert the Member to be the Commander of a new stack.....................267
Adding to a stack, or moving switches between stacks...............................................................268
Manually adding a Candidate to a stack (Menu)......................................................................270
Moving a Member from one stack to another (Menu)................................................................272
Using auto join on a Candidate.............................................................................................273
Using a Candidate CLI to push the Candidate into a stack.........................................................273
Using the destination Commander CLI to pull a member from another stack..................................274
Using a Member CLI to push the Member into another stack......................................................275
Converting a Commander to a Member of another stack...........................................................275
Split stacking policy..............................................................................................................276
Configuring merge stacking...................................................................................................276
Converting a Commander or Member to a Member of another stack (Commander Menu).............277
Removing a Member from a stack...........................................................................................277
Removing a stack Member using the Commander’s CLI.........................................................277
Removing a stack Member using the Member’s CLI..............................................................278
Removing a stack Member (Menu)..........................................................................................278
Accessing Member switches for configuration changes and traffic monitoring...............................279
Accessing Member switches for configuring changes and monitoring traffic (Commander Menu).....280
Disabling or re-enabling stacking............................................................................................281
Setting the transmission interval..............................................................................................281
Managing a Candidate switch (Menu)....................................................................................281
Pushing a switch into a stack, modifying the switch’s configuration, or disabling stacking on the switch
(Menu)................................................................................................................................282
Using the Commander to manage the stack.............................................................................283
Monitoring stack status (Menu)...............................................................................................283
Using a stacked switch to view status for all switches with stacking enabled (Menu).......................283
Viewing Commander status (Menu).........................................................................................284
Viewing Member status, and a Commander’s IP and MAC addresses and status (Menu)................284
Viewing Candidate status (Menu)...........................................................................................285
About stack management......................................................................................................285
Components of HP Switch stack management......................................................................285
General stacking operation...............................................................................................286
Interface options.........................................................................................................286
Operating rules for stacking..............................................................................................286
General rules..............................................................................................................286
Specific rules..............................................................................................................288
Stacking operation with multiple VLANs configured..............................................................289
Status messages...............................................................................................................289
SNMP community operation in a stack...............................................................................290
Community Membership..............................................................................................290
SNMP management station access to members via the Commander..................................290
8 Stack management for the 3800 switches..................................................291
Introduction..........................................................................................................................291
Configuring a stack...............................................................................................................291
Creating a stack..............................................................................................................291
Using a deterministic method........................................................................................292
Using the plug-and-go method......................................................................................293
Adding a switch to a stack as a new member......................................................................294
Removing a switch from the stack.......................................................................................295
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