Connect Your Stack To The Management Network - Extreme Networks ExtremeSwitching 5320 Series Hardware Installation Manual

Build Stacks
Rack A
Slot 1
Figure 28: Top-of-Rack Stack Installation
Table 13 lists the recommended order for connecting the stacking ports in this example.
Table 13: Stacked Switches across Several Racks: Connections
Slot 1
Slot 2
Slot 3
Slot 4
Slot 5

Connect Your Stack to the Management Network

Before you can configure Switch Engine for a new stack, your management console must be connected
to at least one switch in the stack.
Connect your management console to the Ethernet management port on the switch that will become
the stack primary node. If you plan to configure redundancy, connect to the console ports of all
switches in the stack that will be primary-capable.
If you followed the cabling examples in
you use the Easy Setup configuration procedure, only slots 1 and 2 can become the primary node.
However, you can connect all switch management ports in the stack if you choose to do so. There is an
alternate IP address configuration that will enable you to log in directly to each switch in the stack
through its Ethernet management port.
See the ExtremeXOS 31.6 User Guide
stack.
Rack B
Slot 2
Connect this slot and port . . .
Rack A Port 2
Rack B Port 2
Rack D Port 2
Rack E Port 2
Rack C Port 2
for instructions to perform the software configuration for your
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Connect Your Stack to the Management Network
Rack C Rack D
Slot 5 Slot 3
Slot 2
Slot 3
Slot 4
Slot 5
Slot 1
Connect the Switches to Form the Stack Ring
Rack E
Slot 4
. . . To this slot and port
Rack B Port 1
Rack D Port 1
Rack E Port 1
Rack C Port 1
(Rack A Port 1
on page 49, and if
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