F5 ARX-500 Hardware Installation Manual - page 37
Booting the Switch
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the switch that failed. Each ARX uses its private subnet for communication
with other ARXes in the same RON and/or the switch’s redundant peer. All
private subnets in the RON and/or pair are carried by the same VLAN. This
private VLAN, and the separate metalog VLAN, must be reserved for ARX
traffic only.
The private-subnet and VLAN information appears at the top of a the failed
switch’s
show running-config
output. For example, this is the top of a
running-config file from a failed switch. The private-subnet information is
highlighted in bold text:
; ARX-500
; Version 6.00.000.12538 (Feb 16 2011 20:14:13) [nbuilds]
; Database version: 600000.21
; Generated running-config Mon Feb 22 03:06:35 2011
; System UUID db922942-876f-11d8-9110-8dtu78fc8329
; ip private vlan internal 1006 metalog 1007 subnet 169.254.245.128 255.255.255.192
;
terminal character-set unicode-utf-8
config
vlan 103
...
Entering the Private Subnet
Enter the private subnet and VLAN of the failed switch, as well as the
VLAN for the private metalog subnet. The VLANs must be unique in your
network, shared only amongst the ARXes in the RON. The defaults (1002
and 1003) may be sufficient for your installation. For example:
...
The switch's internal subnet requires an IP address and mask.
7. Enter the switch's private IP address
in the format nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn.(default=169.254.151.64) # 169.254.245.128
8. Enter the switch's private subnet mask
in the format nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn.(default=255.255.255.192) #
The private subnet VLAN is used externally for redundancy traffic.
Be sure this value does not conflict with existing VLAN IDs.
9. Enter the switch's private subnet VLAN
in the format integer [1-4095].(default=1002) # 1006
The private subnet metalog VLAN is used for storing file-change
logs on battery-backed NVRAM, possibly on a redundant peer.
Be sure this value does not conflict with existing VLAN IDs.
10. Enter the switch's private subnet metalog VLAN
in the format integer [1-4095].(default=1003) # 1006
Finding the UUID of the Failed Switch
When a switch imports storage from back-end filers, it marks each share
with its Universally-Unique ID (UUID). A replacement switch must use the
same UUID or it will reject all of the shares used by its predecessor. You
also need to set the UUID if the switch is brought back to its factory
defaults; a “Manufacturing Installation” by F5 personnel resets the switch
and its UUID.