Description: This assigns the priority to the member. If the stack is rebooted and the members are assigned with priorities, then commander will be the one with the highest priority and the standby will be the one with the next highest priority. The following rules apply for assigning the priority:

1. In the existing stack, if the priority is increased, the member is likely to become commander only the next time the stack is rebooted, it will not be immediately elected as commander.

2. A switch with the highest priority will not be elected as commander if it is a new member of the stack even when the stack is rebooted as it will not have the latest configurations.

3. If a commander switch with highest priority fails over to standby, it will not become commander again in the subsequent reboot. The stack itself needs to be booted or the failover to this commander should happen.

4. A switch that joins an already active stack will not become the commander even if it has the highest priority.

5. If the priority is assigned to the member when it is in standalone state and when it joins the stack, if the stack configuration has an existing pre-provisioned priority for this member, then the pre-provisioned value preempts the standalone value.

To assign priority to a member, the member can either be provisioned or physically present.