Defining port-channel advanced settings

You can configure advanced port-channel properties using the port-channel Advanced Configuration template.

Procedure

Complete the following steps to create a port-channel Advanced Configuration template.

1. From the XClarity Administrator menu bar, click Provisioning > Switch Configuration Templates. The Switch Configuration Templates page is displayed.
2. Click Port Channel > Advanced Configuration in the left navigation, and then click the Create icon ().
3. In the Create New Template dialog, specify the following information.

   • Enter a name and description for the template.

   • Specify a port channel ID (port aggregator interface) to update. This can be a number from 1-4095.

   • Choose whether individual ports remain active when LACP fails. This can be one of the following values.

     • Active. (default) Enables LACP unconditionally.

     • Suspend. Disables LACP .

   • Specify the minimum number of links that must be up for the port channel to be considered up. This can be a number from 1 – 32.

4. 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.

   For information about deploying a template, see Deploying switch-configuration templates to a target switch