Adding To A Stack Or Moving Switches Between Stacks - HP ProCurve 5300xl Series Management Manual

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Stack Management for the Series 3400cl and 6400cl Switches

Configuring Stack Management

Removes the Member

from the "Big_Waters"

Converts the former

Member to the Com

mander of the new

"Lakes" stack.

Figure 13-27. Example of Using a Member's CLI To Convert the Member to the Commander of a New Stack

Adding to a Stack or Moving Switches Between Stacks

You can add switches to a stack by adding discovered Candidates or by moving

switches from other stacks that may exist in the same subnet. (You cannot

add a Candidate that the Commander has not discovered.)

In its default configuration, the Commander's Auto-Grab parameter is set to

No to give you manual control over which switches join the stack and when

they join. This prevents the Commander from automatically trying to add

every Candidate it finds that has Auto Join set to Yes (the default for the

(If you want any eligible Candidate to automatically join the stack when the

Commander discovers it, configure Auto Grab in the Commander to

you do so, any Candidate discovered with

no Manager password will join the stack, up to the limit of 15 Members.)

The output from this command tells you the

MAC address of the current stack Commander.

(the default) and

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