Brocade BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide User Manual

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Configuring LLDP

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You can list all of the ports individually, use the keyword to to specify ranges of ports, or a
combination of both. To apply the configuration to all ports on the device, use the keyword all
instead of listing the ports individually. Note that using the keyword all may cause undesirable
effects on some ports. For example, if you configure all ports to advertise their VLAN name, and
the configuration includes ports that are not members of any VLAN, the system will warn of the
misconfigurations on non-member VLAN ports. The configuration will be applied to all ports,
however, the ports that are not members of any VLAN will not send VLAN name advertisements.

System capabilities

The system capabilities TLV identifies the primary functions of the device and indicates whether
these primary functions are enabled. The primary functions can be one or more of the following
(more than one for example, if the device is both a bridge and a router):

Repeater

Bridge

WLAN access point

Router

Telephone

DOCSIS cable device

Station only (devices that implement end station capability)

Other

System capabilities for Brocade devices are based on the type of software image in use.

By default, the system capabilities are automatically advertised when LLDP is enabled on a global
basis. To disable this advertisement, enter a command such as the following.

BigIron RX(config)# no lldp advertise system-capabilities ports e 2/4 to 2/12

The system capabilities will appear similar to the following on the remote device, and in the CLI
display output on the Brocade device (show lldp local-info).

System capabilities : bridge

Enabled capabilities: bridge

Syntax: [no] lldp advertise system-capabilities ports ethernet <slotnum/portnum> | all

You can list all of the ports individually, use the keyword to to specify ranges of ports, or a
combination of both. To apply the configuration to all ports on the device, use the keyword all
instead of listing the ports individually. Note that using the keyword all may cause undesirable
effects on some ports. For example, if you configure all ports to advertise their VLAN name, and
the configuration includes ports that are not members of any VLAN, the system will warn of the
misconfigurations on non-member VLAN ports. The configuration will be applied to all ports,
however, the ports that are not members of any VLAN will not send VLAN name advertisements.

System description

The system description is the network entity, which can include information such as the product
name or model number, the version of the system’s hardware type, the software operating system
level, and the networking software version. The information corresponds to the sysDescr MIB
object in MIB-II.

To advertise the system description, enter a command such as the following.

BigIron RX(config)# lldp advertise system-description ports e 2/4 to 2/12

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