H3C Technologies H3C S5120 Series Switches - Manual (Page 708)

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Establishing a Stack
An administrator can establish a stack as follows:
z Configure a private IP address pool for a stack and create the stack on the network device which is
desired to be the master device.
z Configure ports between the stack devices as stack ports.
z The master device automatically adds the slave devices into the stack, and assigns a number for
each stack member.
z The administrator can log in to any slave device from the master device of the stack, and perform
configurations for the slave device.
Stack Configuration Task List
Complete the following tasks to configure stack:
Task Remarks
Configuring a Private IP Address Pool for a
Stack
Required
Configuring Stack Ports Required
Configuring the Master Device
of a Stack
Creating a Stack Required
Configuring Stack Ports of a Slave Device Required
Logging In to the CLI of a Slave from the Master Optional
You can not configure stack and cluster at same time. Refer to Cluster Management Configuration for
details.
Configuring the Master Device of a Stack
Configuring a Private IP Address Pool for a Stack
To do… Use the command… Remarks
Enter system view system-view —
Configure a private IP address
pool for the stack stack ip-pool ip-address
{ mask | mask-length }
Required
By default, no IP address pool
is configured for a stack.