Trunk showing as separate connections in Procurve Manager

[John van_2]

Hi,

I have a couple of Procurve 2848 and 4 Procurve 2810 switches. These are trunked together with 2 or 4 ports and show up in Procurve Manager link view diagram as a single trunk.

I've bought a Procurve 2610 and trunked it using 2 ports in the same way as the other switches. When I view it in the Procurve Manager diagram is shows up as two separate links rather than a single trunk like the others.

When I change the Link View to "Traffic" the links are greyed out.

Is there a configuration issue with this Trunk or is the 2610 not totally compatible with Procurve Manager?

Thanks,

John

P.S. This thread has been moved from Switches, Hubs, Modems (Legacy ITRC forum) to PCM. -HP Forum Moderator

[Prashant Naik]

Try Rediscovering the device.
Most of the times re-discovering the devices corrects such problem as the database of that device is rebuilt during re-discovery & all the links are re-drawn.

[John van_2]

Thank you for your reply. I tried rediscovering the device without success. I then removed the device and used Manual Discovery. Each time the diagram shows the trunk as two separate connections at 1 Gbps each.

John

[John van_2]

I have just noticed something which may point to the cause of the problem. In PCM Network Maps, when I select VLAN's - 1, then the 2610 switch is there but doesn't show a link at all. All the other switches show the trunks.

I have double checked the trunk setting on both switches and both belong to Default_VLAN and Untagged.

Can anyone advise on why that might be?

John

[Prashant Naik · Accepted solution]

I am wondering whether the PCM database has the correct information about the port list of 2610. Could you check the "Port Status" TAB under "Port List" and see whether the Trunk port is listed there. Also, if the Trunk port are shown then is the status "Green".

[John van_2]

The trunk showed up as "green" with a 2Gbps speed which is correct. I removed the trunk on the original switch and re-applied it. Now the diagram shows up as expected.

Not sure what fixed the problem but I appreciate your help.

Thank you.

John