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High Availability on Stacks
Stacks have master and standby management units analogous to Dell EMC Networking route processor modules (RPM).
The master unit synchronizes the running configuration and protocol states so that the system fails over in the event of a
hardware or software fault on the master unit. In such an event, or when the master unit is removed, the standby unit becomes
the stack manager and Dell EMC Networking OS elects a new standby unit. Dell EMC Networking OS resets the failed master
unit: after online, it becomes a member unit; the remaining members remain online.
Example of Stack Manager Redundancy
DellEMC#show redundancy
-- Stack-unit Status --
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Mgmt ID: 0
Stack-unit ID: 5
Stack-unit Redundancy Role: Primary
Stack-unit State: Active
Stack-unit SW Version: 1-0(0-3387)
Link to Peer: Up
-- PEER Stack-unit Status --
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Stack-unit State: Standby
Peer Stack-unit ID: 2
Stack-unit SW Version: 1-0(0-3387)
-- Stack-unit Redundancy Configuration --
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Primary Stack-unit: mgmt-id 0
Auto Data Sync: Full
Failover Type: Hot Failover
Auto reboot Stack-unit: Disabled
Auto failover limit: 3 times in 60 minutes
-- Stack-unit Failover Record --
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Failover Count: 0
Last failover timestamp: None
Last failover Reason: None
Last failover type: None
-- Last Data Block Sync Record: --
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stack-unit Config: succeeded Nov 25 2014 15:29:58
Start-up Config: succeeded Nov 25 2014 15:29:58
Runtime Event Log: succeeded Nov 25 2014 15:29:58
Running Config: succeeded Nov 25 2014 15:29:58
ACL Mgr: succeeded Nov 25 2014 15:29:58
LACP: no block sync done
STP: no block sync done
SPAN: no block sync done
Management Access on Stacks
You can access the stack via the console port or VTY line.
Console access You may access the stack through the console port of the master unit (stack manager) only. Similar
to a standby RPM, the console port of the standby unit does not provide management capability; only a limited number of
commands are available. Member units provide a limited set of commands.
Remote access You may access the master unit and standby unit in a stack through the dedicated management
Ethernet interfaces with SNMP, SSH, or via Telnet.
Example of Accessing Non-Master Units on a Stack via the Console Port
-----------------CONSOLE ACCESS ON A STANDBY----------------------------
Dell(standby)#?
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