H3C Technologies H3C S3600 Series Switches - Manual (Page 802)

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z You need to enable the IRF automatic fabric function on all the devices including the newly added
device in the fabric to enable the newly added device to download software and discovery
neighbors and thus be added to the fabric normally.
z After you configure the IRF automatic fabric function on Slave, execute the save command to save
the configurations as soon as possible. Otherwise, the device may synchronize the configurations
from Master and restart repeatedly because the configurations on the device are lost after the
device automatically downloads the software and restarts.
Displaying and Maintaining IRF Fabric
To do… Use the command… Remarks
Display the information about an
IRF fabric
display irf-fabric [ port | status ]
Display the topology information of
an IRF fabric display ftm { information |
topology-database }
Available in any view
Clear the FTM statistics reset ftm statistics Available in user view
IRF Fabric Configuration Example
Network Requirements
Configure unit ID, unit name, IRF fabric name, and authentication mode for four switches to enable
them to form an IRF fabric as shown in Figure 1-5 .
The configuration details are as follows:
z Unit IDs: 1, 2, 3, 4
z Unit names: unit 1, unit 2, unit 3, unit 4
z Fabric name: hello
z Authentication mode: simple password
z Password: welcome