Q-Logic 5600 Manuel D’Utilisation

4 – Managing Switches

Managing Switch Stacks

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SANsurfer Switch Manager recognizes switches as a stack if they are connected 
by their high speed stacking ports. The switch management application will 
auto-detect switches connected by their 10-Gbps ports and display these stacked 
switches as a single stack entity in the topology and faceplate displays. 

The graphic window (upper right pane of the faceplate display) displays one 
faceplate image for each switch in the stack.

In the fabric tree (left pane of the faceplate display), the switches in each stack are 
nested under the stack icon, which is nested under the fabric icon. Expanding the 
fabric and stack icons in the fabric tree displays all switches in a stack. The lock 
image on the fabric icon indicates that the application is communicating with the 
fabric through a secure (Secure Sockets Layer) connection. 

The stack dialogs are essentially the same as their corresponding switch dialogs, 
except for the Select Switch for Initial Configuration pull-down menu is added to 
each dialog. The stack dialogs display the information for the switch selected in 
the Select Switch for Initial Configuration pull-down menu. Choose another switch 
in the pull-down menu to display information for that switch. The switch 
configuration displayed is the configuration that will be applied to all other 
switches in the stack after you click the OK button. The following operations are 
available to configure the stack as a single entity: