When The Standby Module Is Not Available; Hotswapping In A Management Module; And Hotswapped Module - HP ProCurve Management And Configuration Manual

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When the Standby Module is not Available

If you have disabled redundancy with the configuration level command no
redundancy management-module, or the standby module failed selftest, the
Dwn LED will not turn green to indicate it is OK to hotswap out the active
management module.
If you remove the active management module without pressing the MM
Shutdown button, any files that may have been in the process of
synchronizing will not finish synchronizing to the standby module and all file
transfer is aborted.

Hotswapping In a Management Module

If another management module is hotswapped in while there is an active
management module booted up, the newly hotswapped management module
becomes the standby module. It partially boots up and heartbeats are sent
back and forth with the active management module. No negotiating is needed
as to which module will become the active management module as there is
already a functioning active management module. However, these conditions
must be met to determine if the hotswapped module can become a standby
management module:
■ The hotswapped module must pass selftest
Redundancy is not administratively disabled (using the configuration
■
level command no redundancy management-module). If the active manage­
ment module's config file has redundancy administratively disabled, the
hotswapped management module goes into "offline" mode.
Software Version Mismatch Between Active

and Hotswapped Module

Sometimes the software version in the hotswapped module may not match
the software version in the active module. In these cases the following occurs:
1. The active module sends the primary and secondary images in flash to the
hotswapped module.
2. The module that was hotswapped in then reboots if necessary to primary
or secondary flash, whichever matches (if it doesn't match already).
3. After the hotswapped management module finishes booting, it is sent the
config and other critical files from the active management module.