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October 28th, 2016 04:00
Stacking N1500 series switches
Hello everyone
I am trying to make 4 switches form a stack but with no luck so far. I believe I follow the steps correctly but I really don't know why the rest of them do not add themselves to the stack. If anyone has some spare time, please have a look at the steps I take below:
1. The cables I use are SFP 10G. The ports I want to use are 1/0/3 and 1/0/4. I can confirm that the cables are plugged in correctly to form a ring topology.
2. Power on switch 1 (the one I want it to be the master) and access the switch using hyperterminal.
3. After a minute or two I power on the next switch and then the rest of them.
3. go into 'operational mode' and start the 'setup wizard'. I then create an admin account, and setup vlan1. I enter the IP, subnet and GW
4. Then I follow the steps shown in this link: http://www.dell.com/Support/Article/us/en/19/HOW10800
5. After I run 'reload', I reboot all the switches but they all become unit 1.
I don't know what I am doing wrong here. Any suggestions please?
vt1012
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October 28th, 2016 09:00
In your step 1 I believe you already have the cables connected, whereas in step 4 (where it takes you to another set of steps) it says to wait and cable them together after you have set each switches ports to stacking mode. I think at this point you may need to start over and uncable them. Then go into each switch (which are still showing they are in stand-alone mode) and rerun the "stack-port tengigabitethernet 1/0/3 stack" and "stack-port tengigabitethernet 1/0/4 stack" commands. Make sure you save your configuration (copy run start). Then power down all switches, cable up the stacking ports in a ring, and boot up the designated master all they way until you can log into it. Then bring up the next one the same way. Run the show system stack command to show the stack of two switches is working, then power up the remaining switches.
Hope this helps!
-B
goudeuk
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October 28th, 2016 09:00
That sentence solved my problem:
Then go into each switch (which are still showing they are in stand-alone mode) and rerun the "stack-port tengigabitethernet 1/0/3 stack" and "stack-port tengigabitethernet 1/0/4 stack" commands.
Thank you Barrett I did not realise that I have to do that on each switch. This is not being mentioned in the 'Getting started' guide.:emotion-7: