VSX page

If Aruba Virtual Switching Extension (VSX) is configured, the VSX page shows configuration and status information about the VSX:

  • The switch configurations include VSX LAGs that span both switches.

  • Each switch has a user-configured role: either primary or secondary. If configuration synchronization is enabled, supported configuration changes performed on the primary switch are performed on the secondary switch automatically.

  • The switches synchronize their configuration and state information over a user-configured interswitch link (ISL).

    The ISL is used for both datapath traffic forwarding and control path VSX protocol exchange.

  • A separate IP-based keepalive mechanism completes the control plane by providing an integrity check if there is an ISL failure.

For more information about VSX, see the ArubaOS-CX Virtual Technologies Guide for your software version.

Summary panel

The Summary panel shows state information about the switch to which you are connected, the role (primary or secondary) of this switch in the VSX, and when the last synchronization among switches occurred.

The IP address of the switch to which you are connected is shown in the top banner of the Web UI.

Info panel

The Info panel provides configuration information about the VSX switches, including the following:

  • The system ID of this switch and of the peer switch.

  • The ISL port of this switch and of the peer switch. If the ISL is a LAG, the name of the LAG is shown.

  • The host name and IP address of the peer switch.

  • Whether configuration synchronization between switches is enabled.

  • The names of the VSX LAGs.

Keep Alive Information panel

The Keep Alive Information panel shows information and status information about the keep alive communications from the keep alive source IP address to the IP address of this switch (shown in the top banner of the Web UI) and IP address of the peer switch (shown under Peer IP in the panel).

Control Traffic Statistics panel

The Control Traffic Statistics panel shows information about control plane traffic between the primary and secondary VSX switches. The traffic shown in this panel is related to the coordination of information between VSX switches when the switches are acting as a single routing device.

Management & Assurance Statistics panel

The Management & Assurance Statistics panel shows information about management traffic between the primary and secondary VSX switches. Examples of management traffic between VSX switches include the following:

  • Traffic related to synchronizing switch configuration data from the primary switch to the secondary switch.

  • Traffic related to executing show commands that include the vsx-peer option to get data from the peer switch.

  • Traffic related to Network Analytics Engine monitors or REST API calls that query the peer switch.