VigorSwitch G2240 User’s Guide
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appear on the top of its Web UI. By pressing these buttons, user will be allowed to connect
the Web UI of the devices of the group in the same window without the login of these
devices.
The most top-left button is only for Master device. The background color of the button you
press will be changed to represent that the device is under your management.
Note:
It will remove the grouping temporarily in case that you login the switch via
the console.
The device of the group will be shown as station address (the last number of IP Address) +
device name on the button (e.g. 10_VigorSw), otherwise it will show ” ---- “ if no
corresponding device exists.
Once the devices join the group successfully, then they are merely able to be managed via
Master device, and user will fail to manage them via telnet/console/web individually.
Up to 16 devices can be grouped for VSM, however, only one Master is allowed to exist in
each group. For Master redundancy, user may configure more than two devices as the
Master device. However, the Master device with the smaller MAC value will be the Master
one. All of these 16 devices can become Master device and back up with each other.
Parameter description:
State:
It is used for the activation or de-activation of VSM. Default
is “Disable”.
Role:
The role that the switch would like to play in virtual stack.
Two types of roles, including master and slave are offered
for option. Default is Master.
Group ID:
It is the group identifier (GID) which signs for VSM.
Valid letters are A-Z, a-z, 0-9, “
-
“ and “_” characters.
The maximal length is 15 characters