Brocade Communications Systems 6650 manual System description

8 LLDP configuration

System capabilities for Brocade devices are based on the type of software image in use (e.g., Layer 2 switch or Layer 3 router). The enabled capabilities will be the same as the available capabilities, except that when using a router image (base or full Layer 3), if the global route-only feature is turned on, the bridge capability will not be included, since no bridging takes place.

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.

Brocade(config)#no lldp advertise system-capabilities ports e 1/1/1 to 1/1/5

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 <stack-unit>/<slot>/<port>all

Specify the ethernet port in the <stack-unit>/<slot>/<port>format. Stack-unit is 1.

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 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.

Brocade(config)#lldp advertise system-description ports e 1/1/1 to 1/1/5

The system description 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	description : "Brocade	Communications,	Inc.
IronWare	Version 04.0.00b256T3e1	Compiled on Sep	04 2007 at 0\
	3:54:29	labeled as SXS04000b256"

NOTE

The contents of the show command output will vary depending on which TLVs are configured to be advertised.

Syntax: [no] lldp advertise system-description ports ethernet <stack-unit>/<slot>/<port>all

Specify the ethernet port in the <stack-unit>/<slot>/<port>format. Stack-unit is 1.

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