Description: The admin status of the stacking feature. When set to 'enable (1)', this will enable stacking on a standalone switch that had stacking disabled previously. Once stacking is enabled, the switch will not have a stack ID and merges automatically to any stack it is connected to and learns the stack ID of that stack.

It has no effect on a switch where stacking is already enabled. An error will be returned when attempting to set the value to 'enable(1)' on a switch that has secure-mode set to enhanced.

Setting this to 'disable (2)' will disable stacking on a standalone switch. Once stacking is disabled, the stack ports will be kept down. This will prevent the switch from ever joining or creating a stack. This is allowed only on a standalone switch, that is, a switch that is not connected over a stacking link to any other switch. It has no effect on a switch where stacking is already disabled.

Enabling or disabling stacking will trigger a reboot of the switch.

When hpStackSwitchAdminStatus is set to 'true (1)', and if the user wants to set the preferred priority and the member ID of the switch, then hpStackSwitchPreferredPriority and hpStackSwitchPreferredMemberId needs to be set along with hpStackSwitchAdminStatus. If the priority and member ID are not specified, then the default values will be used.