Adding to a stack, or moving switches between stacks (CLI)
You can add switches to a stack by adding discovered Candidates or by moving switches from other stacks that may exist in the same subnet.
![[NOTE: ]](images/note.gif) | NOTE: You cannot add a Candidate that the Commander has not discovered. |
In its default configuration, the Commander's Auto-Grab parameter
is set to No to give you manual control over which
switches join the stack and when they join. This prevents the Commander
from automatically trying to add every Candidate it finds that has Auto
Join set to Yes (the default for the
Candidate).
To allow eligible candidates to automatically
join the stack when the Commander discovers it, configure Auto
Grab in the Commander to Yes. When you
do so, any Candidate discovered with Auto Join set
to Yes (the default) and no Manager password, will
join the stack, up to the limit of 15 Members.
To manually add a candidate, use:
A switch number (
SN) to assign to the new member. Member SNs range fromshow stack view. You can use any SN not included in the listing. (SNs are viewable only on a Commander switch.)The MAC address of the discovered Candidate you are adding to the stack; to see the MAC address, use
show stack view.
To display all discovered Candidates with their
MAC addresses, use the show stack candidates command
from the Commander CLI. For example, to list discovered candidates
for the above Commander:
Knowing the available switch numbers (SNs)
and Candidate MAC addresses, you can manually assign a Candidate to
be a Member of the stack:
Syntax:
stack member [<switch-number> mac-address <mac-addr> password ]<password-str>
For example, if the switch in the above output did not have a Manager password and you want to make it a stack Member with an
SNof2, use the following command:switch(config)#: stack member 2 mac-address 0060b0-dfla00Using
show stack viewthen shows the added Member (see Displaying the stack after adding a new member.
