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Having trouble adding Cat 3548 to cluster

PaulWelc
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I have a cluster established which consist of (3) 3548 and (1) 3524. When trying to add another switch (3548) to the cluster I get an error message stating member unreachable. Cluster manager can see the switch and list it's MAC and the type of switch. I have them cabled together using GBICs and have never had a problem adding switches before. Also have trouble trying to console directly to switch. Any answer would be greatly appreciated.

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milan.kulik
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If you are in trouble even connecting to the switch console (and your terminal works OK with another switch) then connect to the console, reboot the switch (switch it off/on) and watch the console output and LEDs - it might show some HW problem.

Sometimes (power problem, e.g.) switches just get "frozen" and are OK after reboot.

I would alse check the IOS version and upgrade to the newest one.

Regards,

Milan

Thanks for the info Milan. I was able to console to the switch by starting a term with another switch then plugging into the console of the "trouble" switch which let me configure ip, host name etc. I saved config, rebooted switch, but when I start up Cluster manager it sees the switch with the new host name (so it has to be communicating ) but when I click to add to the cluster it still says member unreachable. Any other ideas? When I added the new switch I put it in the middle of the other switches unstead of the bottom, that shouldn't matter should it, as they are all GBIC together?