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Stack configuration
This chapter includes these sections:
• Stack configuration overview
• Stack configuration task list
• Configuring the master device of a stack
• Configuring stack ports of a slave device
• Logging in to the CLI of a slave from the master
• Displaying and maintaining stack configuration
• Stack configuration example
Stack configuration overview
To manage network devices situated at distant sites as a whole, you can connect the network devices and
perform necessary configurations to establish a stack, helping reduce customer investments and simplify
network management.
Introduction to stack
A stack is a management domain that comprises several network devices connected to one another
through stack ports. In a stack, there is a master device and several slave devices.
An administrator can manage all the devices in a stack through the master device. Figure 61 sh
ows a
network diagram for stack management.
Figure 61 Network diagram for stack management
• Master device: In a stack, the master device acts as the configuration interface in stack
management. Management and monitoring of all the devices in the stack are performed through
the master device.
• Slave devices: Managed devices in a stack.
• Stack port: Ports between stack devices.