166 Managing a Switch Stack
Viewing and Clearing Stacking and NSF Information
Beginning in Privileged EXEC mode, use the following commands to view
stacking information and to clear NSF statistics.
Stacking and NSF Usage Scenarios
Only a few settings are available to control the stacking configuration, such as
the designation of the standby unit or enabling/disabling NSF. The examples
in this section describe how the stacking and NSF feature act in various
environments.
This section contains the following examples:
• Basic Failover
• Preconfiguring a Stack Member
• NSF in the Data Center
•NSF and VoIP
• NSF and DHCP Snooping
Command Purpose
show switch [
stack-
member-number]
View information about all stack members or the specified
member.
show switch stack-
standby
View the ID of the switch that will assume the role of the
stack master if it goes down.
show switch stack-port View information about the stacking ports.
show switch stack-port
counters
View the statistics about the data the stacking ports have
transmitted and received.
show supported
switchtype
View the PowerConnect models that are supported in the
stack and the switch index (SID) associated with each
model.
show nsf View summary information about the NSF feature.
show checkpoint
statistics
View information about checkpoint messages generated by
the stack master.
clear checkpoint
statistics
Reset the checkpoint statistics counters to zero.