Troubleshooting An Unsuccessful Stack Build - Dell PowerConnect B-FCXs Configuration Manual

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Troubleshooting an IronStack

Troubleshooting an unsuccessful stack build

If you are unable to build a stack, (for example, the show stack command does not display any
stack units), perform the following steps.
1. Enter the show run command on each unit to make sure the configuration contains "stack
2. Check that all of your stacking port connections are secure and working properly. Enter the
3. Confirm that all of the devices are running the same software image
4. Use the show log command to display any IPC version mismatch messages. These messages
5. Type show stack ipc to see if any traffic has been sent or received. Enter clear stack ipc to clear
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enable". If it does not, enter the stack enable command on the unit. Before a stack is formed,
you can still access the console port on each device. Once a stack is successfully formed, you
are redirected to the Active Controller.
NOTE
If you are building a stack using secure-setup, you do not have to enter stack enable on each
unit.
show interface stack on each device to confirm that the stacking port links are up and the
ports are in the forward state.
PowerConnect# show interfaces stack
Port Link State
1/2/1 Up Forward
1/2/2 Up Forward
appear in one minute when receiving mismatched probe packets, and then once every 10
minutes.
the traffic statistics and then enter show stack ipc again so you can easily see differences in
traffic flow.
PowerConnect# show stack ipc
Recv IPC 330 packets
Message types have callbacks:
1 : Reliable IPC message
.... more message types removed.
Send message types:
[5]=190,
[14]=126,
Recv message types:
[5]=224,
[20]=1,
Statistics:
send pkt num
send msg num
send frag pkt num
pkt buf alloc
Reliable-mail
target ID
target MAC
There is 0 current jumbo IPC session
Possible errors:
*** state not ready
Dupl Speed Trunk Tag
Full 10G None No
Full 10G None No
2 : Reliable IPC atomic batch
[6]=10, [9]=636,
[6]=6, [14]=90,
[27]=9,
: 964,
: 964,
: 0,
: 964,
send success receive
0 0
0 0
: 1,
P MAC Name
1 0012.f2eb.a902
1 0012.f2eb.a904
[11]=2,
[18]=2,
recv pkt num
recv msg num
recv frag pkt num
time us
0 0
2 0
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: 330,
: 330,
: 0,
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