Dell 5324 - PowerConnect Switch User Manual Addendum

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4w w w . d e l l . c o m | s u p p o r t . d e l l . c o mConfiguring LLDPThe Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) allows network managers to troubleshoot and enhance networkmanagement by discovering and maintaining network topologies over multi-vendor environments. LLDPdiscovers network neighbors by standardizing methods for network devices to advertise themselves to othersystem, and to store discovered information. Device discovery information includes:• Device Identification• Device Capabilities• Device ConfigurationThe advertising device transmits multiple advertisement message sets in a single LAN packet. The multipleadvertisement sets are sent in the packet Type Length Value (TLV) field. LLDP devices must support chassis andport ID advertisement, as well as system name, system ID, system description, and system capabilityadvertisements.The LLDP Properties page contains fields for configuring LLDP.To open the LLDP Properties Page, click Security → LLDP → LLDP Properties in the tree view.Figure 1-1. LLDP PropertiesEnable LLDP — Indicates if LLDP is enabled on the device. The possible field values are:Checked — Indicates that LLDP is enabled on the device.Unchecked — Indicates that LLDP is disabled on the device. This is the default value.