Adding A Candidate Switch To A Cluster; Configuring Advanced Cluster Management Functions; Configuring Topology Management - HP 5500 EI Series Configuration Manual

Task
Access the CLI of the management
switch from a member switch.

Adding a candidate switch to a cluster

Step
1. Enter system view.
2. Enter cluster view.
3. Add a candidate switch to the cluster.
Configuring advanced cluster management
functions

Configuring topology management

The concepts of blacklist and whitelist are used for topology management. An administrator can
diagnose the network by comparing the current topology (namely, the information of a node and its
neighbors in the cluster) and the standard topology.
Topology management whitelist (standard topology)—A whitelist is a list of topology information
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that has been confirmed by the administrator as correct. You can get information about a node and
its neighbors from the current topology. Based on this information, you can manage and maintain
the whitelist by adding, deleting or modifying a node.
Topology management blacklist—Switches in a blacklist are not allowed to join a cluster. A
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blacklist contains the MAC addresses of switches. If a blacklisted switch is connected to a network
through another switch not included in the blacklist, the MAC address and access port of the latter
are also included in the blacklist. The candidate switches in a blacklist can be added to a cluster
only if the administrator manually removes them from the list.
The whitelist and blacklist are mutually exclusive. A whitelist member cannot be a blacklist member, and
the blacklist member cannot be a whitelist member. However, a topology node can belong to neither the
whitelist nor the blacklist. Nodes of this type are usually newly added nodes, whose identities are to be
confirmed by the administrator.
You can back up and restore the whitelist and blacklist in the following two ways:
Backing them up on the FTP server shared by the cluster. You can manually restore the whitelist and
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blacklist from the FTP server.
Command
cluster switch-to administrator
Command
system-view
cluster
administrator-address mac-address name name
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Remarks
You can use this command
only if you're not logged in to
the member switch from the
CLI of the management switch.