Catalyst 3850, added new VLAN, but doesn't display in 'show vlan'

[corpengineer818]

We have a Catalyst 3850 switch stack, connected to an ASA-X5545 via Etherchannel.  Working just fine for a few dozen VLANs.  However when I add an addition VLAN, it does not seem to work.

Think I am missing something basic here.

After I added interface vlan 200 ('interface vlan 200', and 'no shutdown') on the switch, it does not appear in 'show vlan'.

And if I type 'show span vlan 200', it errors out 'Spanning tree instance(s) for vlan 200 does not exist'.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thank you.

[johnd2310]

HI,

Have you created the vlan before adding the interface vlan 200?

e.g.

vlan 200
 name vlan_200

Thanks

John

[corpengineer818]

Appreciate the prompt response, thank you.

'vlan 200'

It displays:

VTP VLAN configuration not allowed when device is not the primary server for vlan database.

Catalyst3850Stack#show vtp status
VTP Version capable             : 1 to 3
VTP version running             : 3
VTP Domain Name                 : la
VTP Pruning Mode                : Enabled
VTP Traps Generation            : Disabled
Device ID                       : 580a.2094.aa80

Feature VLAN:
--------------
VTP Operating Mode                : Server
Number of existing VLANs          : 16
Number of existing extended VLANs : 0
Maximum VLANs supported locally   : 4096
Configuration Revision            : 0
Primary ID                        : 0000.0000.0000
Primary Description               :
MD5 digest                        :

Feature MST:
--------------
VTP Operating Mode                : Transparent

Feature UNKNOWN:
--------------
VTP Operating Mode                : Transparent

[johnd2310]

Hi,

You are using VTP version 3. Which switch is your primary server in your network. You will need to create the vlan 200 on the VTP primary server.

Thanks

John

[corpengineer818]

We have (1) switch stack w/ (4) 3850 switches.  Switch #1 is 'Active'.  We do not have any other switches connected to the stack.  Thought that the switches in a stack share a single configuration?

[johnd2310 · Accepted solution]

Hi

You have to make that switch stack the primary vtp server before you can create the vlans using the following command:

vtp primary

Have a look at the following doc:

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst3850/software/release/3se/vlan/configuration_guide/b_vlan_3se_3850_cg/b_vlan_3se_3850_cg_chapter_011.html#ID94

Thanks

John

[corpengineer818]

It worked.  Thank you very much.  Thank you to Inayath as well.

[InayathUlla Sharieff]

Hi,

Okay lets try this:-

1- Can you try to create the same vlan on all the switches and see if you hvae the problem seeing it on all the switches? (Show vlan id 200)

Confg: conf t

            vtp primary

            vlan 200

show vlan id 200

2- Coming down to only this switch:- Can you post the output of show vlan id 200?

(Also show us the config pertaining to vlan200).

HTH

Regards

Inayath