Adding A Candidate Device To A Cluster; Configuring Advanced Cluster Functions; Configuring Topology Management - H3C S5500-EI series Operation Manual

Operation Manual – Cluster Management
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1.6 Adding a Candidate Device to a Cluster

Follow these steps to add a candidate device to a cluster:
Enter system view
Enter cluster view
Add a candidate device to
the cluster

1.7 Configuring Advanced Cluster Functions

This section covers these topics:

Configuring Topology Management

Configuring Interaction for a Cluster
1.7.1 Configuring Topology Management
The concepts of blacklist and whitelist are used for topology management. An
administrator can diagnose the network by comparing the current topology and the
standard topology.
Current topology: The information of a node and its neighbors of the cluster.
Topology management whitelist (standard topology): A whitelist is a list of
topology information that has been confirmed by the administrator as correct. You
can get the information of a node and its neighbors from the current topology.
Based on the information, you can manage and maintain the whitelist by adding,
deleting or modifying a node.
Topology management blacklist: A blacklist is a list of devices that are not allowed
to join a cluster unless the administrator manually removes them from the list. A
blacklist contains the MAC addresses of devices. If a blacklist device is connected
to network through another device not included in the blacklist, the MAC address
and access port of the latter are also included in the blacklist.
A whitelist member cannot be a blacklist member, and vice versa. However, a topology
node can belong to neither the whitelist nor the blacklist. Nodes of this type are usually
newly added nodes, whose identities are to be confirmed by the administrator.
You can back up the whitelist and blacklist to prevent them from missing when a power
failure occurs to the management device. The following two backup and restore
mechanisms are available:
Backing them up on the FTP server shared by the cluster. You can manually
restore the whitelist and blacklist from the FTP server.
To do...
system-view
cluster
administrator-address
mac-address name name
Chapter 1 Cluster Management Configuration
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