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Using Groups to Configure Power Supply Management, Power Budgets, and LCD Menus on EX8200 Member Switches in an EX8200 Virtual Chassis (CLI Procedure)

You configure an EX8200 Virtual Chassis from the primary external Routing Engine. The configuration file that is saved on the primary external Routing Engine is also saved to the backup external Routing Engine as well as to each Routing Engine or each Switch Fabric and Routing Engine on all EX8200 member switches in the Virtual Chassis.

For most features in an EX8200 Virtual Chassis, this file saving architecture allows you to configure features for the entire Virtual Chassis from a single interface.

For managing the power supplies or the LCD panel interfaces for specific member switches in the Virtual Chassis, however, you cannot use this file saving architecture to precisely set the configuration parameters. You must instead use groups to configure power supply management or the LCD interface for individual member switches in an EX8200 Virtual Chassis.

An EX8200 Virtual Chassis has a default group for each member switch that allows you to configure LCD interfaces or power supply management. The group is named membermember-number, where member-number is the member ID number of the switch. For instance, you configure features in the group named member1 to configure power supply management or the LCD interface for the switch assigned member ID 1 in the Virtual Chassis.

You configure groups using the CLI interface on the primary external Routing Engine. You also have to apply the configured groups from primary external Routing Engine CLI on the primary external Routing Engines for the group configuration to be applied to the member switch.

Note:

You cannot use groups to configure member switch interfaces in an EX8200 Virtual Chassis.

To use groups to manage the power supply configuration or to disable a menu on the LCD interface for a specific member switch within an EX8200 Virtual Chassis:

  1. Log into the primary external Routing Engine.
  2. Use the group configuration to disable a menu on the LCD interface:

    For example, to disable the maintenance menu on the LCD interface on member switch 1:

  3. Use the group configuration to enable power supply redundancy:

    For example, to enable power supply redundancy on member switch 1:

  4. Use the group configuration to assign a power budget priority for a line card on a member switch:

    For example, to assign a power budget priority of 7 to the line card in slot 6 of the EX8200 member switch assigned as member ID 1:

  5. Apply the group to the EX8200 Virtual Chassis configuration:

    For instance, to apply the group assigned to member 1 to the configuration:

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