Introduction To Hgmp - Huawei Quidway S5700 Series Configuration Manual - Network Management

Quidway S5700 Series Ethernet Switches
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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3-1, and Figure 3-2 show the networking diagram of a cluster.
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