Connecting The Physical Irf Ports; Accessing The Irf Fabric To Verify The Configuration - HP 5120 EI Series Installation Manual

Execute the irf-port-configuration active command to activate the IRF port configuration.
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• Execute the display irf configuration command to verify the basic IRF settings.
For more information about configuring basic IRF settings, see the IRF configuration guide for your switch.

Connecting the physical IRF ports

Connect the IRF member switches as planned.
NOTE:
Wear an ESD-preventive wrist strap when you connect the physical IRF ports. For how to connect them,
Pluggable SFP/SFP+/XFP Transceiver Modules Installation Guide
see

Accessing the IRF fabric to verify the configuration

To verify the basic functionality of the IRF fabric after you finish configuring basic IRF settings and
connecting IRF ports:
Log in to the IRF fabric through the console port of any member switch.
1.
Create a Layer 3 interface, assign it an IP address, and make sure that the IRF fabric and the
2.
remote network management station can reach each other.
Use Telnet, web or SNMP to access the IRF fabric from the network management station.
3.
See the fundamentals configuration guide for your switch.
Check that you can manage all member switches as if they were one node.
4.
Display the running status of the IRF fabric by using the commands in
5.
Table 13 Display and maintain IRF configuration and running status
To do ...
Display information about the IRF fabric
Display all members' configurations that take
effect after switch reboots
Display topology information about the IRF
fabric
NOTE:
To avoid IP address collision and network problems, configure at least 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 the IRF configuration guide for your switch.
Use the command...
display irf
display irf configuration
display irf topology
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Table 13.