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You may provision a Port Reservation for the new Grid Member. When doing so, you select the device to which you expect the new Grid Member to connect; In the context of a Grid member, this device type is usually an Ethernet Switch or Switch-Router. The Add Grid Member Wizard provides a step in which you define the port reservation settings, as described in the following section Adding a Single Member. The process also can be applied when defining an HA pair, as described in the sections Creating an HA Grid Master Creating an HA Grid Master and Adding an HA Member see below. |
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In a large-scale deployment of Grids across multiple sites, consider remotely provisioning your Grid members before joining them to the Grid. For more information about this feature, see Auto-Provisioning NIOS Appliances.
In situations where you want to define certain configurations on an offline Grid member and associate DNS and DHCP data to the member before deploying it, you can use the pre-provisioning feature to accomplish this. For more information, see Pre-Provisioning NIOS and vNIOS Appliances.
Adding a Single Member
The basic steps necessary to add a single member are as follows:
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Interface: Displays the name of the interface. You cannot modify this.
Address: Type the IPv4 or IPv6 address depending on the type of interface. An IPv6 address is a 128-bit number in colon hexadecimal notation. It consists of eight 16-bit groups of hexadecimal digits separated by colons (example: 2001:db8:0000:0123:4567:89ab:0000:cdef or 2001:db8::123:4567:89ab:0:cdef).
Subnet Mask (IPv4) or Prefix Length (IPv6): Specify an appropriate subnet mask for IPv4 address or prefix length for IPv6 address. The prefix length ranges from 2 to 127.
Gateway: Type the IPv4 or IPv6 address of the default gateway depending on the type of interface. For IPv6 interface, you can also type Automatic to enable the appliance to acquire the IPv6 address of the default gateway and the link MTU from router advertisements.
VLAN Tag: For a VLAN, enter the VLAN tag or ID. You can enter a number from 1 to 4094. Ensure that you configure the corresponding switch accordingly.
Port Settings: From the drop-down list, choose the connection speed that you want the port to use. You can also choose the duplex setting. Choose Full for concurrent bidirectional data transmission or Half for data transmission in one direction at a time. Select Automatic to instruct the NIOS appliance to negotiate the optimum port connection type (full or half duplex) and speed with the connecting switch automatically. This is the default setting. You cannot configure port settings for vNIOS appliances.
DSCP Value: Displays the Grid DSCP value, if configured. To modify, click Override and enter the DSCP value. You can enter a value from 0 to 63. For information about DSCP, see ImplementingQualityofServiceUsingDSCPConfiguring Ethernet Ports.
5. In the Port Reservation page, do the following:
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6. Optionally, define extensible attributes. For information, see About Extensible Attributes.
7. The final step for adding a Grid member is to define when the associated Port Configuration task executes. You may execute it immediately or schedule it for another time and date.
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5. Optionally, define extensible attributes. For information, see Using Extensible Attributes.
6. Do one of the following:
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Log in to the appliance or HA pair that you want to add to the Grid. The appliance or HA pair must be online and able to reach the Grid Master.
From the Grid tab, select the Grid Manager tab -> Members tab.
Expand the Toolbar and click Join Grid.
In the Join Grid dialog box, enter the following:
Virtual IP of Grid Master: Type the VIP address of the HA Grid Master or the LAN1 address of the single Grid Master for the Grid to which you want to add the appliance. Entries may be an IPv4 or IPv6 address.
Grid Name: Type the name of the Grid.
Grid Shared Secret: Type the shared secret of the Grid.
Use MGMT port to join Grid: If you have already enabled the MGMT port (see Grid Communications), this option becomes available. Select it to connect to the Grid through the MGMT port.
Click OK to begin the join operation.
To confirm that the appliance has successfully joined the Grid, log in to the Grid Master and navigate to the Grid tab, select the Grid Manager -> Members tab. This panel lists the Grid members. Check the icon in the Status column of the newly added member. (green = the appliance has joined the Grid and is functioning properly; yellow = the appliance is in the process of joining the Grid; red = the appliance has not joined the Grid). You can also use the CLI command set network to join an appliance to a Grid.
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