Accessing The Irf Fabric; Accessing The Global Active Mpu Of The Irf Fabric; Accessing A Standby Mpu In The Irf Fabric - HP 7500 series Configuration Manual

Accessing the IRF fabric

The IRF fabric appears as one device after it is formed. You configure and manage all IRF members at
the CLI of the global active MPU. All settings you made are automatically propagated to the IRF
members.
When you log in to an IRF fabric, you are placed at the CLI of the global active MPU, regardless of at
which member switch you are logged in. After that, you can switch to the CLI of a standby MPU to
execute a limited set of maintenance commands.
The IRF fabric supports up to 16 concurrent VTY users. The maximum number of concurrent console users
equals the total number of MPUs in the IRF fabric.

Accessing the global active MPU of the IRF fabric

Access an IRF fabric in one of the following ways:
Local login—Log in through the console port of a member switch.
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Remote login—Remotely log in at a Layer 3 Ethernet interface on any member switch through Telnet
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or SNMP.
For more information, see the chapter on login in Fundamentals Configuration Guide.

Accessing a standby MPU in the IRF fabric

You can log in to the CLI of a standby MPU for maintenance or debugging. When you switch from the
global active MPU's CLI to the standby MPU's CLI, you are placed in user view and the command prompt
changes to <Sysname-Slave#member-ID/slot-number>, for example, <Sysname-Slave#1/0>. You can
perform the following commands at a standby MPU's CLI:
display
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• quit
return
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system-view
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debugging
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terminal debugging
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• terminal logging
terminal monitor
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terminal trapping
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Perform the following task in user view:
Task
Log in to a standby MPU in the IRF
fabric.
To return to the CLI of the global active MPU, use the quit command.
Command
irf switch-to chassis chassis-number
slot slot-number
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Remarks
By default, you are placed at the
global active MPU's CLI.