Irf Configuration Fast Recovery; Configuration Prerequisites - HP A7503 Configuration Manual

Figure 13 Recover IRF member switches (approach II)
Follow these steps to manually recover an IRF fabric in recovery state:
To do...
Enter system view
Recover an IRF fabric in recovery
state
NOTE:
For a switch that transitioned to recovery state due to the multi-active collision, if you need to bring up one
of its port that are already shut down, HP recommends that you execute the mad restore command to
recover the switch and make it operate in the active state instead of executing the undo shutdown
command to perform a manual recovery.

IRF configuration fast recovery

If a member switch has only one MPU and that board is corrupted, use the following fast recover function
to avoid complicated IRF configuration.

Configuration prerequisites

HP recommends that you perform the fast recovery operation when the switch operates in IRF mode.
•
Save the IRF configuration file on all MPUs of the IRF fabric. Assume the name of the configuration
•
file is a.cfg.
Use the command...
system-view
mad restore
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