HP 2910AL User Manual

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Configuring for Network Management Applications

LLDP (Link-Layer Discovery Protocol)

Viewing the Switch’s Current CDP Neighbors Table.

Devices are listed

by the port on which they were detected.

Syntax: show cdp neighbors

Lists the neighboring CDP devices the switch detects,
with a subset of the information collected from the
device’s CDP packet.

[ [e] port-numb [detail] ]

Lists the CDP device connected to the specified port.
(Allows only one port at a time.) Using

detail provides

a longer list of details on the CDP device the switch
detects on the specified port.

[detail [ [e] port-num ] ]

Provides a list of the details for all of the CDP devices
the switch detects. Using

port-num produces a list of

details for the selected port.

Figure 14-30 lists CDP devices that the switch has detected by receiving their
CDP packets.

Figure 14-30. Example of CDP Neighbors Table Listing

Enabling CDP Operation.

Enabling CDP operation (the default) on the

switch causes the switch to add entries to its CDP Neighbors table for any
CDP packets it receives from other neighboring CDP devices.

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