Allied Telesis AT-S63 - Manual (Page 44)

Chapter 1: Overview
44 Section I: Basic Operations
Powering On a Stack
The switches of a stack can be powered on in any order. The units
initialize their management software, which takes about one minute to
complete, and afterwards perform the discovery process. The length of the
discovery process can vary from fifteen seconds to several minutes,
depending on the size of the stack and the number of the commands in
the active configuration file on the master switch.
You can monitor the progress of the stack during these tasks by
connecting a terminal or a personal computer with a terminal emulation
program to the Terminal Port on the master switch, assigned the static
module ID number 1. (For a stack that is using dynamic module ID
numbers, the master switch will be the unit with the lowest MAC address.
The MAC addresses of the switches can be found on a label on the back
panel.)
The commencement by the stack of the discovery process is signalled
with the messages in Figure 4.
Figure 4. Commencement of the Discovery Process
Note
If you see an error message during the discovery process, go to
“Troubleshooting the Discovery Process” on page 46.
After the completion of the discovery process, the master switch displays
the number of switches in the stack and its own MAC address twice, once
as the switch of the local management session and again as the master
switch of the stack. Figure 5 is an example of the messages.
Figure 5. Conclusion of the Discovery Process
Stack discovery is in progress ...
PLEASE DO NOT ADD/DELETE UNITS TO/FROM THE STACK UNTIL THE
CURRENT STACK SETUP AND THE STACK CONFIGURATION IS LOADED.
4 module(s) discovered
Local MAC address: 00:04:75:00:00:11
Master MAC address: 00:04:75:00:00:11