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Chapter 4 Configuring Controller Settings
Configuring the Cisco Discovery Protocol
• The CDP version being advertised (v1 or v2)
• The time left (in seconds) before the CDP neighbor entry expires
• The functional capability of the CDP neighbor, defined as follows: R - Router, T - Trans Bridge,
B - Source Route Bridge, S - Switch, H - Host, I - IGMP, r - Repeater, or M - Remotely Managed
Device
• The hardware platform of the CDP neighbor device
• The software running on the CDP neighbor
Step 6 Choose Traffic Metrics to see CDP traffic information. The CDP > Traffic Metrics page appears (see
Figure 4-47).
Figure 4-47 CDP > Traffic Metrics Page
This page shows the following information:
• The number of CDP packets received by the controller
• The number of CDP packets sent from the controller
• The number of packets that experienced a checksum error
• The number of packets dropped due to insufficient memory
• The number of invalid packets
Using the CLI to Configure the Cisco Discovery Protocol
To configure CDP using the controller CLI, follow these steps:
Step 1 Enable or disable CDP on the controller by entering this command:
config cdp {enable | disable}
CDP is enabled by default.
Step 2 Specify the interval at which CDP messages are to be generated by entering this command:
config cdp timer seconds
The range is 5 to 254 seconds, and the default value is 60 seconds.
Step 3 Specify the amount of time to be advertised as the time-to-live value in generated CDP packets by
entering this command:
config cdp holdtime seconds