Allied Telesis AlliedWare Plus Operating System Version 5.4.4C (x310-26FT,x310-26FP,x310-50FT,x310-50FP) - Manual (Page 2137)

VCStack Introduction
Software Reference for x310 Series Switches
C613-50046-01 REV A AlliedWare Plus TM Operating System - Version 5.4.4C 82.23
Provisioning and Configuration Management
A benefit of provisioning is configuration settings are no longer dependent on the
existence of hardware devices. When a device is removed, all the interfaces for that device
are shutdown and its provisioning status is set. This means that you can add or remove
physical hardware without affecting your network interfaces. Of course when ports go
down (i.e. are physically removed) there will be other changes to network configuration,
as protocols may re-converge or, for example, routes may be removed etc.
Switches within a VCStack can be hot-swapped without the need for reconfiguration.
The configuration of a newly inserted device that matches the provisioned board-class is
achieved on a best-effort basis. For example inserting a non-POE switch into a stack
member location configured for PoE will result in the failure of the PoE configuration
commands.
Take care that your provisioned configurations, match with the type of hardware that you
plan to install.
awplus(config)# switch 2 bay 4 provision
awplus(config)# interface port2.0.4
awplus(config-if)# shutdown