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Enabling or disabling LLDP

To discover and send advertisements to LLDP-compliant neighboring devices, LLDP must be enabled on each node of the cluster. By default, LLDP is disabled on all ports of a node.

About this task

The lldp.enable option controls whether LLDP is enabled or disabled on the ports of a node:

  • on enables LLDP on all ports.
  • off disables LLDP on all ports.
  1. Display the current LLDP setting for a node, or for all nodes in a cluster:
    • Single node: run -node node_name options lldp.enable
    • All nodes: options lldp.enable
  2. Enable or disable LLDP on all ports of a node, or on all ports of all nodes in a cluster:
    To enable or disable LLDP on...Enter...
    A noderun -node node_name options lldp.enable {on|off}
    All nodes in a clusteroptions lldp.enable {on|off}
    • Single node: run -node node_name options lldp.enable {on|off}
    • All nodes: options lldp.enable {on|off}