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Chapter 8 Configuring VLANs
Management VLANs
Changing the Management VLAN for a New Switch
If you add a new switch to an existing cluster and the cluster is using a
management VLAN other than the default VLAN 1, the command switch
automatically senses that the new switch has a different management VLAN and
has not been configured. The command switch issues commands to change the
management VLAN on the new switch to match the one in use by the cluster. This
automatic change of the VLAN only occurs for new, out-of-box switches that do
not have a config.text file and for which there have been no changes to the running
configuration.
Before a new switch can be added to a cluster, it must be connected to a port that
belongs to the cluster management VLAN. If the cluster is configured with a
management VLAN other than the default, the command switch changes the
management VLAN for new switches when they are connected to the cluster. In
this way, the new switch can exchange CDP messages with the command switch
and be proposed as a cluster candidate.
Note
For the command switch to change the management VLAN on a new switch,
there must have been no changes to the new switch configuration, and there
must be no config.text file.
Because the switch is new and unconfigured, its management VLAN is changed
to the cluster management VLAN when it is first added to the cluster. All ports
that have an active link at the time of this change become members of the new
management VLAN.
For information about the role management VLANs play in switch clusters, see
the
“Management VLAN” section on page 5-11
.