General Steps For Creating A Stack - HP procurve series 4100gl Management And Configuration Manual

Figure 14-4. Using the System Name to Help Identify Individual Switches
Default stacking configuration (
I
set to )
Yes
Same subnet (broadcast domain) and default VLAN as the
I
Commander (If VLANs are used in the stack environment, see
"Stacking Operation with a Tagged VLAN" on page 14-44.)
I No Manager password
I 14 or fewer stack members at the moment

General Steps for Creating a Stack

This section describes the general stack creation process. For the detailed
configuration processes, see pages 14-13 through 14-36 for the menu interface
and pages 14-29 through 14-41 for the CLI.
1. Determine the naming conventions for the stack. You will need a stack
name. Also, to help distinguish one switch from another in the stack, you
can configure a unique system name for each switch. Otherwise, the
system name for a switch appearing in the Stacking Status screen appears
as the stack name plus an automatically assigned switch number. For
example:
HP Procurve Stack Management
Configuring Stack Management
set to
Stack State Candidate
, and
Auto Join
For status
descriptions, see the
table on page 14-46.
Stack with unique
system name for each
switch.
Stack named "Online"
with no previously
configured system
names assigned to
individual switches.
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