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Configuring Advanced Features
Stack Management
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Using a Candidate CLI To Manually “Push” the Candidate Into a
Stack .
Use this method if any of the following apply:
■
The Candidate’s
Auto Join
is set to
Yes
(and you do not want to enable
Auto Grab
on the Commander) or the Candidate’s
Auto Join
is set to
No
.
■
Either you know the MAC address of the Commander for the stack into
which you want to insert the Candidate, or the Candidate has a valid IP
address and is operating in your network.
Syntax:
stack join
<mac-addr>
where:
<mac-addr>
is the MAC address of the Commander in
the destination stack.
Use Telnet (if the Candidate has an IP address valid for your network) or a
direct serial port connection to access the CLI for the Candidate switch. For
example, suppose that a Candidate named “North Sea” with
Auto Join
off and
a valid IP address of 10.2.13.104 is running on a network. You could Telnet to
the Candidate, use
show stack all
to determine the Commander’s MAC address,
and then “push” the Candidate into the desired stack.
Figure 9-31. Example of “Pushing” a Candidate Into a Stack
To verify that the Candidate successfully joined the stack, execute
show stack
all
again to view the stacking status.
Using the Destination Commander CLI To “Pull” a Member from
Another Stack.
This method uses the Commander in the destination stack
to “pull” the Member from the source stack.
SMC6624M# telnet 10.2.13.104
North Sea# show stack all
Stacking - Stacking Status (All)
Stack Name
MAC Address
System Name
Status
--------------- ------------- ------------------------- --------------------
Big_Waters
0030c1-7fec40 SMC6624M
Commander Up
0060b0-880a80 Indian Ocean
Member Up
0060b0-df1a00 Bering Sea
Member Up
Others:
0030c1-7fc700 North Sea
Candidate
North Sea# config
North Sea(config)# stack join 0030c1-7fec40
1. Telnet to the Candidate named “North Sea”.
2. Use
show stack all
to display the Commander’s
MAC address.
3. Set the Candidate CLI to Config mode.
4. Execute
stack join
with the
Commander’s MAC address to “push”
the Candidate into the stack.
MAC Address for
Stack Commander
