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Motorola Series Switch WS5100 User Manual

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Switch Services

5-27

context). For information on licensing rules impacting redundancy group members, see

Redundancy Group

License Aggregation Rules on page 5-34

.

To view status and membership data and define a redundancy group configuration, refer to the following:

Reviewing Redundancy Status

Configuring Redundancy Group Membership

To configure switch redundancy:

1. Select

Services

>

Redundancy

from the main menu tree.

The Redundancy screen displays with the Configuration tab selected.

2. Refer to the

Configuration

field to define the following:

Redundancy Switch
IP

Define the IP address the redundancy feature uses to send heartbeats and update messages.

Enable Redundancy

Select this checkbox to enable/disable clustering. Clustering must be disabled to set any
redundancy related parameter. All the modifiable values are grayed out if redundancy is
enabled.

Redundancy ID

Define an ID for the cluster group. All the switches configured in the cluster should have the
same Cluster ID. The valid range for an ID is 1-65535.

Mode

A member can be in either in

Primary

or

Standby

mode. In the redundancy group, all

‘Active’ members adopt access ports except the ‘Standby’ members who adopt access ports
only when an ‘Active’ member has failed or sees an access-port not adopted by a switch.

Discovery Period

Use the

Discovery Period

field to configure cluster member discovery time. During the

discovery time, a switch discerns the existence of other switches within the redundancy
group.

Heartbeat Period

The

Heartbeat Period

is the interval heartbeat messages are sent. Heartbeat messages are

used to discover the existence and status of other members within the redundancy group.