You can create port aggregators and add ports to the aggregators using a port-channel Basic Configuration template.
If the port channel has ports in it, and some of those ports are part of the template, their properties (port priority, mode, and timeout) are updated with the template's settings when the template is deployed.
Procedure
Complete the following steps to create a port-channel Basic Configuration template.
- From the XClarity Administrator menu bar, click . The Switch Configuration Templates page is displayed.
- Click in the left navigation, and then click the Create icon (
). - In the Create New Template dialog, specify the following information.
Enter a name and description for the template.
Specify one or more valid physical L2 interfaces. You can specify a list of interfaces separated by a comma, a range of IDs separated by a dash, or a combination of both, for example:
Ethernet1/10
Ethernet1/3,5,7,9
Ethernet1/5-10,21-32
Ethernet2/2-5,7,9,11-13
Specify the port channel ID (port aggregator interface) to create or update. This can be a number from 1-4095.
Specify the Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) port mode. This can be one of the following values.
Active and Passive can be mixed in the same aggregator, but Static cannot.
Specify the LACP port priority. This can be a number from 1 - 65535.
The LACP port priority is used with the port number to form the LACP Port ID.
Specify the LACP timeout mode before LCAP goes into individual mode. This can be one of the following values.
- Click Create to save the template, or click Create and Deploy to save and immediately deploy the template to one or more managed rack switches.