Approving Switches
The switch must be approved so that it can be discovered and monitored by the controller.
- Switches that do not match any registration rule are automatically in the default group.
- At this point, a switch is not managed and the status is shown as offline.
- To actively manage a switch in this predicament, you must move it from the staging group to any other switch group or domain in vSZ-H platforms. In SZ144 and vSZ-E platforms, the default group behavior is similar to any other group. Refer to Moving the Switches between Groups for more information.
Note: A switch capacity license
(CAPACITY-SWITCH-DEFAULT) is available for controllers and switches managed by
the
controllers. The license is activated for devices running SmartZone 5.1 or later.
Upgrading to SmartZone 5.1 from an earlier version activates the license by default.
A 90-day license version is then available for trial or purchase. The controller
manages switches only as defined in the Switch Capacity license and rejects
individual switches or stacks when license capacity is reached. Any switch that
exceeds license limits is moved to the service group, where it cannot be configured.
When license capacity is again available, the controller accepts the switch for
management. For the controllers (SZ144), a trial license will allow adding the
maximum number of switches supported. In the case of vSZ-E or vSZ-H, a trial license
will allow the addition of 5 switches.
Note: Based on the switch capacity license
(CAPACITY-SWITCH-HA), you can approve a failover switch on a standby cluster to
switch over to the original cluster.
The recommendation is to always use switch registration rules so that the switches are placed in the correct switch group and avoid manual intervention.