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CONFIGURING VIRTUAL STACKVirtual Stack Management(VSM) is the group management function. Throughthe proper configuration of this function, switches in the same LAN will begrouped automatically. And among these switch, one switch will be a mastermachine, and the others in this group will become the slave devices. information.VSM offers a simple centralized management function. It is not necessary toremember the address of all devices, manager is capable of managing thenetwork with knowing the address of the Master machine. Instead of SNMP orTelnet UI, VSM is only available in Web UI. While one switch become the Master,two rows of buttons for group device will appear on the top of its Web UI. Bypressing these buttons, user will be allowed to connect the Web UI of the devicesof the group in the same window without the login of these device.The most top-left button is only for Master device. The background color of thebutton you press will be changed to represent that the device is under yourmanagement.WEB INTERFACETo configure Virtual Stack in the web interface:1. Click SYSTEM, Virtual Stack.2. Display the system log on the screen.3. Click Clear. It will clear all record of switch system log.NOTE: It will remove the grouping temporarily in case that you login theswitch via the console.NOTE: Up to 16 devices can be grouped for VSM, however, only one Master isallowed to exist in each group. For Master redundancy, user may configuremore than two devices as Master device, however, the Master device with thesmaller MAC value will be the Master one. All of these 16 devices can becomeMaster device and back up with each other .Figure 4-9: Virtual Stack Configuration