Stack configuration
Stack configuration overview
To manage network devices situated at distant sites as a whole, you can connect the network devices and
perform necessary configurations to establish a stack, helping reduce customer investments and simplify
network management.
Introduction to stack
A stack is a management domain that comprises several network devices connected to one another
through stack ports. In a stack, there is a master device and several slave devices.
An administrator can manage all the devices in a stack through the master device. Figure 51 shows a
network diagram for stack management.
Figure 51 Network diagram for stack management
• Master device: In a stack, the master device acts as the configuration interface in stack
management. Management and monitoring of all the devices in the stack are performed through
the master device.
• Slave devices: Managed devices in a stack.
• Stack port: Ports between stack devices.
Establishing a stack
An administrator can establish a stack as follows:
• 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.
• Configure ports between the stack devices as stack ports.
• The master device automatically adds the slave devices into the stack, and assigns a number for
each stack member.
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