Introduction To Hgmp - Huawei S9300 Configuration Manual

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S9300&S9300E Terabit Routing Switch

Configuration Guide - Network Management

3.1 Introduction to HGMP

This part describes the reason for introducing HGMP and the typical networking of HGMP.

Currently, the Ethernet technology is widely used on both metropolitan area networks (MANs)

and enterprise networks. With the expansion of networks, a large number of access devices are

deployed at the edge of the networks. In this situation, you have to maintain and manage a great

number of devices individually and assign IP addresses for them one by one. This leads to the

waste of IP addresses.

The Huawei Group Management Protocol (HGMP) is developed to manage a group of Ethernet

switches. By running HGMP, you can appoint a switch as the administrator in a cluster to perform

integrated management and configurations over other switches added to the cluster. This

simplifies maintenance and engineering. In addition, all the switches in a cluster share one public

IP address to communicate with outside devices, which saves IP addresses.

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show the networking diagram of a cluster.

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3 HGMP Configuration