About Easy Setup

Using Easy Setup, you can configure a stack without entering many of the stacking CLI commands.

The Easy Setup procedure creates a stack with a master and a backup. The remaining nodes are configured with the master capability disabled. Easy Setup provides you an easy way to configure the required stacking parameters for all nodes.

To avoid an additional stack reboot, we recommend that you configure the following stack related features before invoking easy setup:

The configuration procedure described in the next section starts Easy Setup. You can also start it by entering the configure stacking easy-setup command.

Easy Setup performs the functions of the following commands required to configure and activate a ring topology stack:

enable stacking
configure stacking slot-number automatic
configure stacking mac-address
configure stacking redundancy minimal
configure stacking protocol
reboot stack-topology

In a daisy chain topology (which is not recommended), Easy Setup designates the node at the beginning of the chain as the master, and executes the above commands with the following command change:

configure stacking redundancy none

Published March 2020prev | next

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