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Setting the priority numbers – Allied Telesis x310 Series User Manual

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x310 Series Installation Guide for VCStack

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Otherwise, go to Chapter 8, “Cabling the Networking Ports” on
page 103
, to continue with the installation.

Setting the

Priority Numbers

This procedure is optional. It explains how to configure the priority settings
of the switches. Changing the priority settings protects the stack
configuration should you ever power on the stack with a new member
switch that has a lower MAC address than an existing master or member
switch.

This procedure assumes you are continuing directly on from the previous
procedure.

To set the priority values of the switches, perform the following procedure:

1. Use the CONFIGURE TERMINAL command to move from the

Privileged Exec mode to the Global Configuration mode, as shown in
Figure 46.

Figure 46. Moving to the Global Configuration Mode with the CONFIGURE

TERMINAL Command

2. Use the STACK PRIORITY command to set the priority numbers. The

command has this format:

stack

ID_number

priority

priority

The ID_NUMBER parameter is the ID number of the switch whose
priority value you are setting. The range is 1 to 4. The PRIORITY
parameter is the new priority value for the switch. The range is 0 to
255. The default is 128.

Here are a couple examples. To assign the priority value 1 to the
switch with the ID number 1, you enter this command:

awplus(config)# stack 1 priority 1

To set the priority value to 2 on the switch with the ID number 2, you
enter:

awplus(config)# stack 2 priority 2

3. After setting the priority values, enter the EXIT command to return to

the Privileged Exec mode, as shown in Figure 47 on page 98.

awplus# configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
awplus(config)#