1281: Switch stacking, and HA equipment

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

1281	RackTables	VMs/containers	public	2014-07-17 11:29	2017-04-06 10:50

Reporter	tommen	Assigned To
Priority	high	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	new	Resolution	open
Product Version	0.20.8

Summary	1281: Switch stacking, and HA equipment
Description	There is a big gap in functionality when it comes to equipment that is stacked, or in some way of HA. My examples is with Cisco stacked equipment. Buth with stack cables and VSS (ethernet). Switches is stacked and often placed in the same rack, underneet eachother. There is 2 or more switches sharing the same IP and connection, but its not the same box. Different S/N, different port setup sometimes etc. I was told there is a somewhat "workaround" to this, by creating a new container and put the switches in this. But you loose all functionality, as this container does not has any ports and cannot use live ports and stuff like that. Sharing IP is one way of fiksing that, but if that same IP is routing something, then IPv4 page is underdocumented... Another thing is HA. Firewalls mostly come with someway of HA. You meet the same problem here, but the differense is that they only share one IP, and that can be fixed with shared. Still, IPv4 page will be faulty. I thing this is something that must be looked at and made an solution for.
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cyb3rwulf 2014-08-29 17:22 reporter ~0002473	Well I solved the stacking problem by edit the switches themself. I added the ability to mount a switch into another switch(stack). So all abilities of the switch will be provided by the stack.

malik0974 2017-03-08 08:10 reporter ~0003589	Hi cyb3rwulf Can you please explain how you achieved the stacking? Thanking you,

mbrydon 2017-04-06 10:50 reporter ~0003593	We have solved this in a similar way so created an object type of switch stack giving it all the same attributes as a switch (or you could use Network Chassis) then in the object container compatibility section made the network switch a child of network stack. You then choose the stack as the container for each switch and add all the interfaces, attributes etc to the stack rather than the switch

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2014-07-17 11:29	tommen	New Issue
2014-07-17 11:29	tommen	Status	new => assigned
2014-07-17 11:29	tommen	Assigned To	=> adoom42
2014-07-17 16:41	adoom42	Assigned To	adoom42 =>
2014-07-17 16:41	adoom42	Status	assigned => new
2014-08-29 17:22	cyb3rwulf	Note Added: 0002473
2017-03-08 08:10	malik0974	Note Added: 0003589
2017-04-06 10:50	mbrydon	Note Added: 0003593