Discovery LLDP

LLDP is a protocol that enables network managers to troubleshoot and enhance network management in multi-vendor environments. LLDP standardizes methods for network devices to advertise themselves to other systems, and to store discovered information. LLDP enables a device to advertise its identification, configuration, and capabilities to neighboring devices that then store the data in a Management Information Base (MIB).

LDP is a link layer protocol. By default, the device terminates and processes all incoming LLDP packets as required by the protocol. This section describes how to configure LLDP and covers the following topics: