HP A7503 Configuration Manual page 35

To do...
Configure a service port not to
shut down when the IRF fabric
transits to recovery state
Manually recovering an IRF fabric
An IRF link failure causes an IRF fabric to divide into two IRF fabrics and multi-active collision occurs.
When the system detects the collision, it holds a role election between the two collided IRF fabrics. The
IRF fabric whose master's member ID is smaller prevails and operates normally. The state of the other IRF
fabric transitions to recovery state and temporarily cannot forward data packets, as shown in
In this case, recover the IRF fabric by following these steps:
Repair the IRF link. Then, IRF fabric 1 prompts you that an IRF fabric merge will happen and you
1.
need to reboot the switch.
Log in to the IRF fabric in recovery state and reboot it (execute the reboot command in user view).
2.
After the switch reboots, the IRF fabric is recovered.
Figure 12 Recover IRF member switches (approach I)
As shown in
failure occurs, for example) before the IRF link is recovered, enable IRF fabric 2 (in recovery state) to
change the state of IRF fabric 2 from recovery to active, and repair the IRF links. Then, the two IRF fabrics
merge when the IRF link failure is recovered. The following are the operation steps:
Execute the mad restore command on IRF fabric 2 (in recovery state) to change its state from
3.
recovery to active.
Repair IRF fabric 1 and IRF links, and then reboot IRF fabric 1.
4.
After the reboot, IRF fabric 1 and IRF fabric 2 merge and the IRF fabric recovers.
Use the command...
mad exclude interface interface-type
interface-number
Figure 13, if the IRF fabric in active state fails due to exceptions (a member switch fails or link
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Remarks
Required
When an IRF fabric transits to
recovery state, all its service
ports are shut down by default.
Figure 12.