Allied Telesis AT-S60 - Manual (Page 76)

Chapter 4: Enhanced Stacking
Section I: Basic Features 76
Enhanced Stacking Overview
The enhanced stacking feature can make it easier for you to manage an
AT-8400 switch and any other ATI switches in your network that feature
enhanced stacking. It offers the following benefits:
❑ From one local or remote management session, you can manage
up to 24 switches. This eliminates having to initiate a separate
management session for each switch in your network. For
example, with the AT-8400 switch as the master switch, you can
manage AT-8000 Series switches that are configured with the
AT-S39 software version 3.1 and above.
❑ You can assign an IP address to the master switch. In addition, you
can manage slave switches without assigning them individual IP
addresses.This feature reduces the number of IP addresses that
you need to assign to your network devices for remote
management.
❑ Remotely managing a new switch in your network is simplified.
Once you connect a new switch to your network, you can begin to
manage it immediately from any workstation in your network.
Guidelines There are a few guidelines to keep in mind when implementing
enhanced stacking for your network:
❑ Each subnet in your network constitutes an enhanced stack. You
cannot have multiple enhanced stacks in a subnet.
❑ All switches within an enhanced stack must use the same
management VLAN. For information on management VLANs,
refer to Specifying a Management VLAN on page 433.
❑ Different enhanced stacks can use different management VLANs.
❑ Each subnet must have at least one master switch. Allied Telesyn
recommends you assign two master switches to an enhanced
stack.
❑ You must assign the master switch an IP address and a subnet
mask to use enhanced stacking through the Telnet, Web, or SNMP
interfaces.
❑ You must change the master switch’s stacking status to Master.
❑ The enhanced stacking feature uses the IP address 172.16.16.16.
Do not assign this address to any device on your subnet if you
intend to use the enhanced stacking feature.