H3C S5120-EI Series Configuration Manual

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23Accessing an IRF fabricAccessing the masterAccess an IRF fabric in either of the following two ways:• Local login–Log in through the AUX or console port of a member switch.• Remote login–Remotely log in at a Layer 3 interface on any member switch through Telnet, Web, orSNMP.When you log in to an IRF fabric, you are placed at the CLI of its master, regardless of through whichmember switch you are logged in. The master switch is the configuration and control center of the IRFfabric. You make configuration for the IRF fabric on the master, and the IRF fabric synchronizes theconfigurations to all slaves.Accessing a slaveYou can log in to the CLI of a member switch to display its configurations and debug the switch. Whenyou switch from the master’s CLI to the slave’s CLI, you are placed in the user view of the slave switch andthe command prompt changes to

, where X represents the member ID of the slaveswitch, for example, . You can perform the following commands at the CLI of a slaveswitch:• display• quit• return• system-view• debugging• terminal debugging• terminal trapping• terminal loggingTo return to the CLI of the master switch, use the quit command.Follow these steps to log in to a slave switch:To do… Use the command… RemarksEnter system view system-view —Log in to a slave switch irf switch-to member-idRequiredBy default, you are placed at the CLI of the master whenyou log in to the IRF fabric.NOTE:An IRF fabric allows 16 concurrent VTY log-in users at most. And the maximum number of allowedconsole log-in users is equal to the number of IRF members.