Black Box 24 + or 48 + 4-Port Gigabit Managed Switch with SFP+ 10G LLDP-MED Configuration

Chapter 6: Configuration

Management Address: Management Address is the neighbor unit's address that is used for higher layer entities to assist discovery by the network management. For example, this could hold the neighbor’s IP address.

Auto-refresh: Check the box to auto-refresh the device information.

Upper right icon (Refresh): Click this button to refresh the LLDP Neighbors information manually.

6.8.3 LLDP-MED Configuration

Media Endpoint Discovery is an enhancement of LLDP (known as LLDP-MED) that provides the following facilities:

•Auto-discovery of LAN policies (such as VLAN, Layer 2 priority, and differentiated services (Diffserv) settings, enabling plug-and- play networking.

•Device location discovery to allow creation of location databases and, in the case of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP),

Enhanced 911 services.

•Extended and automated power management of Power over Ethernet (PoE) endpoints.

•Inventory management, enabling network administrators to track their network devices, and determine their characteristics

(manufacturer, software, and hardware versions, serial or asset number).

This page enables you to configure the LLDP-MED. This function applies to VoIP devices which support LLDP-MED. Web Interface

To configure LLDP-MED:

1.Click “LLDP-MED configuration.”

2.Modify “Fast start repeat count parameter”; default is 4.

3.Modify “Coordinates Location” parameters.

4.Fill “Civic Address Location” parameters.

5.Add new policy.

6.Click “Save.” This will show Policy Port Configuration.

7.Select “Policy ID” for each port.

8.Click “Save.”

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