Recovering From A Failed Command Switch Without Hsrp - Cisco Catalyst 2950 Software Manual

Recovery Procedures
Basic management setup configures only enough connectivity
for management of the system, extended setup will ask you
to configure each interface on the system
Would you like to enter basic management setup? [yes/no]:
Step 6 Enter Y at the first prompt.
The prompts in the setup program vary depending on the switch that you selected to be the command
switch:
Continue with configuration dialog? [yes/no]: y
or
Configuring global parameters:
If this prompt does not appear, enter enable, and press Return. Enter setup, and press Return to start
the setup program.
Respond to the questions in the setup program.
Step 7
When prompted for the host name, recall that on a command switch, the host name is limited to 28
characters. Do not use -n, where n is a number, as the last characters in a host name for any switch.
When prompted for the Telnet (virtual terminal) password, recall that it can be from 1 to 25 alphanumeric
characters, is case sensitive, allows spaces, but ignores leading spaces.
When prompted for the enable secret and enable passwords, enter the passwords of the failed command
Step 8
switch again.
Step 9 When prompted, enable the switch as the cluster command switch, and press Return.
Step 10 When prompted, assign a name to the cluster, and press Return.
The cluster name can be 1 to 31 alphanumeric characters, dashes, or underscores.
When the initial configuration displays, verify that the addresses are correct.
Step 11
If the displayed information is correct, enter Y, and press Return.
Step 12
If this information is not correct, enter N, press Return, and begin again at Step 9.
Start your browser, and enter the IP address of the new command switch.
Step 13
From the Cluster menu, select Add to Cluster to display a list of candidate switches to add to the cluster.

Recovering from a Failed Command Switch Without HSRP

If a command switch fails and there is no standby command switch configured, member switches
continue forwarding among themselves, and they can still be managed through normal standalone
means. You can configure member switches through the console-port CLI, and they can be managed
through SNMP, HTML, and Telnet after you assign an IP address to them.
The password that you enter when you log in to the command switch gives you access to member
switches. If the command switch fails and there is no standby command switch, you can use the
command-switch password to recover. For more information, see the
Switch Failure" section on page
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