Verifying The Irf Fabric Setup - NEC QX-S5500G Series Installation Manual

Installation Guide
QX-S5500G Series Ethernet Switches
Wear an ESD wrist strap when you connect SFP+/QSFP+ DAC cables or SFP+/QSFP+
transceiver modules and fibers. For how to connect them, see "Appendix B FRUs and
compatibility matrixes".

5.5 Verifying the IRF fabric setup

To verify the basic functionality of the IRF fabric after you finish configuring basic IRF
settings and connecting IRF ports.
To verify the basic functionality of the IRF fabric after you finish configuring basic IRF
settings and connecting IRF ports.
1) Log in to the IRF fabric through the console port of any member switch.
2) Create a Layer 3 interface, assign it an IP address, and make sure the IRF fabric and
the remote network management station can reach each other.
3) Use Telnet, or SNMP to access the IRF fabric from the network management station.
(See "Chapter 1 Fundamentals" of QX-S5500G Series Ethernet Switches
Configuration Guides.)
4) Check that you can manage all member switches as if they were one node.
5) Display the running status of the IRF fabric by using the commands in Table 5-2.
Display information about the IRF fabric.
Display all members' IRF configurations that take effect at a reboot.
Display IRF fabric topology information.
 NOTE:
To avoid IP address collision and network problems, configure a minimum of 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 "Chapter 2 IRF" of QX-S5500G Series Ethernet Switches Configuration Guides.
Table 5-2 Displaying and maintaining IRF configuration and running status
Task
5-9
5. Setting up an IRF fabric
Command
display irf
display irf configuration
display irf topology