HP 12500 SERIES Configuration Manual page 39

Step
2. Configure a port to not
shut down when the IRF
fabric transits to the
Recovery state.
Recovering an IRF fabric
After the failed IRF link between two split IRF fabrics is recovered, log in to the Recovery-state IRF
fabric, and use the reboot command to reboot all its members. If the irf auto-merge enable
command has been configured, the Recovery-state IRF member devices automatically reboot after
the failed link is recovered. After these member devices join the Active-state IRF fabric as standbys,
IRF merge is complete, as shown in
Figure 14 Recovering the IRF fabric
If the Active-state fabric has failed, for example, because of device or link failures, before the IRF
link is recovered (see
change its state to Active to take over. After you repair the IRF link, the two parts merge into a
unified IRF fabric.
Command
mad exclude interface interface-type
interface-number
Figure 14.
Figure 15), use the mad restore command on the Recovery-state fabric to
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Remarks
By default, when an IRF fabric
transits to the Recovery state,
all its network ports except the
IRF physical ports and console
port are shut down.