Provisioning a new network device in a stack

A network device comprising:

• a detection engine to detect a new network device in a stack;
• a determination engine to, in response to detection, determine whether a member network device of the stack is missing;
• an identification engine to, in response to the determination that the member network device of the stack is missing, identify each active adjacent member of the member network device;
• the determination engine to determine whether each active adjacent member of the member network device has detected the new network device in the stack;
• and
• a provisioning engine to:
• in response to the determination that each active adjacent member of the member network device has detected the new network device in the stack, provision the new network device with a member ID of the member network device to the stack;
• and
• apply a configuration setting of the member network device to the new network device.

A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions, the instructions executable by a processor to:

• detect, by a master network switch in a stack, a new network switch in the stack;
• in response to detection, determine, by the master network switch, whether a member network switch of the stack is missing;
• in response to a determination that the member network switch of the stack is missing, identify, by the master network switch, each active adjacent member of the member network switch;
• determine, by the master network switch, whether each active adjacent member of the member network switch has detected the new network switch in the stack;
• and
• in response to a determination that each active adjacent member of the member network switch has detected the new network switch in the stack, provision, by the master network switch, the new network switch with a member ID of the member network switch to the stack.