Connecting The Physical Irf Ports; Accessing The Irf Fabric To Verify The Configuration - H3C S5830 Series Installation Manual

Connecting the physical IRF ports

CAUTION:
Wear an ESD-preventive wrist strap when you connect SFP+ cables or SFP+ transceiver modules and
fibers. For how to connect them, see
Guide
.
Connect IRF member switches with SFP+ cables or SFP+ transceivers and fibers as planned.

Accessing the IRF fabric to verify the configuration

To verify the basic functionality of the IRF fabric when you are finished configuring basic IRF settings and
connecting IRF ports:
Log in to the IRF fabric through the console port of any member switch.
1.
Create a Layer 3 interface, assign it an IP address, and make sure the IRF fabric and the remote
2.
network management station can reach each other.
Use Telnet, web or SNMP to access the IRF fabric from the network management station. (See H3C
3.
S5830 Switch Series Fundamentals Configuration Guide.)
Verify that you can manage all member switches as if they were one node.
4.
Display the running status of the IRF fabric by using the commands in
5.
Table 8 Displaying and maintaining IRF configuration and running status
Task
Display information about the IRF fabric.
Display all members' configurations.
Display topology information about the IRF
fabric.
NOTE:
To avoid IP address collision and network problems, configure at least one multi-active detection (MAD)
mechanism to detect the presence of multiple identical IRF fabrics and handle collisions. For more
information about MAD detection, see
H3C Pluggable SFP/SFP+/XFP Transceiver Modules Installation
Command
display irf
display irf configuration
display irf topology
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Table 8.
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