Using The Commander To Manage The Stack - HP procurve series 4100gl Management And Configuration Manual

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Stacking menu.

Using the Commander To Manage The Stack

The Commander normally operates as your stack manager and point of entry
into other switches in the stack. This typically includes:
Adding new stack members
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Moving members between stacks
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I Removing members from a stack
Accessing stack members for individual configuration changes and traffic
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monitoring
The Commander also imposes its passwords on all stack members and pro-
vides SNMP community membership to the stack. (See "SNMP Community
Operation in a Stack" on page 14-43.)
Using the Commander's Menu To Manually Add a Candidate to a
Stack. In the default configuration, you must manually add stack Members
from the Candidate pool. Reasons for a switch remaining a Candidate instead
of becoming a Member include any of the following:
in the Commander is set to
I Auto Grab
I Auto Join in the Candidate is set to
Note: When a switch leaves a stack and returns to Candidate status, its
parameter resets to
Auto Join
stack from which it has just departed.
I A Manager password is set in the Candidate.
The stack is full.
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Unless the stack is already full, you can use the Stack Management screen to
manually convert a Candidate to a Member. If the Candidate has a Manager
password, you will need to use it to make the Candidate a Member of the stack.
1. To add a Member, start at the Main Menu and select:
9. Stacking...
4. Stack Management
You will then see the Stack Management screen:
) to save your configuration changes and return to the
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so that it will not immediately rejoin a
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HP Procurve Stack Management
Configuring Stack Management
(the default).
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