Discovering Devices

You can now choose the discovery method used to find MLAG devices plugged into your configured peers. The discovery converts ports to single-link LAGs and adds LACP to any active ports in the Default VLAN. Although this does change existing port configurations, this is the most accurate way to determine which ports are connected to LAGs.

Note

Ports not in the Default VLAN are unaffected by this discovery and may not be detected.

Caution

Any existing configuration on these ports will be lost during discovery. This includes STP, IGMP filter, IGMP Static Group, MAC Security, CFM, TRILL, etc.

Select the discovery method you want to use:
- LACP Protocol (use steps 2 through 5).
  Note
  Load shares must already be configured on the MLAG devices and LACP must be enabled.
- EDP (use steps 6 through 7).
  Note
  If EDP is chosen as the discovery method, it will only work with Extreme Networks switches.
Click Discover Devices to begin.
For LACP discovery: Click LACP Scan to continue.

Note
It could take 10–30 seconds for LACP information to be transferred. Please wait 30 seconds for remote MLAG devices to show before re-scanning (with the LACP Scan button).

All the discovered devices display. If no devices display, you can re-scan. If nothing displays after the second time, the remote MLAG device may not have LACP enabled on the loadshare.

Note
Ports are grouped based on their remote device. The number next to each set of ports is the LACP partner key.
If you are satisfied with the scan, click LACP Scan End.
Chalet will grey out the Enable MLAG Ports button until the scan is ended.

Click Enable MLAG Ports beside each port group you want enabled with MLAG.

Note

Each port group can be edited if the discovered ports are not acceptable.

Assuming Enable MLAG Ports was clicked for each MLAG device, Chalet pushes the following configuration to each peer:

## Peer 1 ##
configure vlan default delete port 2,10-11,15-19
enable sharing 17 grouping 17-18 algorithm address-based custom lacp
enable sharing 19 grouping 19 algorithm address-based custom lacp
enable sharing 10 grouping 10-11 algorithm address-based custom lacp
enable sharing 2 grouping 2 algorithm address-based custom lacp
enable sharing 15 grouping 15-16 algorithm address-based custom lacp
enable mlag port 2 peer "m00049697E9F9" id 4enable mlag port 10 peer "m00049697E9F9" id 3
enable mlag port 15 peer "m00049697E9F9" id 5enable mlag port 17 peer "m00049697E9F9" id 1
enable mlag port 19 peer "m00049697E9F9" id 2

## Peer 2 ##
configure vlan default delete port 2,10-11,15-19
enable sharing 17 grouping 17-18 algorithm address-based custom lacp
enable sharing 19 grouping 19 algorithm address-based custom lacp
enable sharing 10 grouping 10-11 algorithm address-based custom lacp
enable sharing 2 grouping 2 algorithm address-based custom lacp
enable sharing 15 grouping 15-16 algorithm address-based custom lacp
enable mlag port 2 peer "m00049697E9E2" id 4
enable mlag port 10 peer "m00049697E9E2" id 3
enable mlag port 15 peer "m00049697E9E2" id 5
enable mlag port 17 peer "m00049697E9E2" id 1
enable mlag port 19 peer "m00049697E9E2" id 2

For EDP discovery: select EDP Protcol and then click Discover Devices.

EDP discovery has no way of knowing which LAGs you want on the remote LAG device, so all ports found on the device will be grouped together.
Note
Each port group can be edited if the discovered ports are not acceptable.
Click Enable MLAG Ports beside each port group you want enabled with MLAG.
When finished, click Add VLAN.