LLDP

Discover and broadcast to neighboring devices using Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP).

LLDP uses IEEE 802.1AB neighbor discovery to share basic management information with neighbors running LLDP.

• Network interfaces - Select the network interfaces to broadcast/discover LLDP on, and view neighbor information.

Properties

Enable

Enable the LLDP service.

• Data type: boolean
• Default: false
• Configuration

CLI: (cli)> config monitoring lldp enable

Support CDP

Use the Cisco Discovery Protocols (CDPv1 and CDPv2) in addition to LLDP.

• Data type: boolean
• Default: true
• Configuration

CLI: (cli)> config monitoring lldp cdp

System description override

Override the automatic system description with a custom string.

• Data type: string
• Configuration
• Optional

CLI: (cli)> config monitoring lldp description-override

System description

The system description string advertised to neighbors.

If System description override is not set, then one is automatically generated. The format of the automatically generated string is [vendor]/[product] [firmware verson] -- [firmware build date].

• Data type: string
• Status

CLI: (cli)> show monitoring lldp description

Platform override

The platform description string advertised to neighbors using CDP.

If this field is not set, then the firmware's kernel name is used.

• Data type: string
• Configuration
• Optional

CLI: (cli)> config monitoring lldp platform-override

Management addresses

IPv4 and IPv6 addresses sent to neighbors as management addresses.

• Data type: reference list
• Configuration

CLI: (cli)> config monitoring lldp management-address