Your customer has a newly installed CX6300 switch with multiple hosts connected that need to communicate. Which mandatory action needs to be performed?

Question

Options

• AEvery switch needs to have a hostname and management IP address assigned before it will allow
• BThe switch needs to be registered with HPE Aruba Central before communications are possible.
• CA 'No Shutdown' command needs to be performed on ports where the hosts are connected.
• DA VLAN needs to be configured on each port of that switch to enable communications.

• A
  2% (1)
• B
  6% (3)
• C
  88% (46)
• D
  4% (2)

Explanation

On Aruba CX switches (and most enterprise switches), physical ports default to an administratively down state, meaning they must be explicitly enabled with no shutdown before any traffic can pass - without this, hosts are physically connected but logically blocked. A is wrong because hostname and management IP are optional administrative conveniences, not prerequisites for host-to-host switching. B is wrong because Central registration is for cloud management visibility, not basic Layer 2 forwarding - the switch works standalone out of the box. D is wrong because all ports are automatically assigned to VLAN 1 by default, so no VLAN configuration is required just to get hosts communicating on the same network.

Memory tip: Think "no shutdown = no silence" - the port is silent until you explicitly tell it to wake up. If hosts can't talk through a brand-new switch, the first thing to check is whether the ports were ever turned on.

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