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Chapter6 Performing Administrati ve Tasks Using Discovery and Managing Devices
Set Up Routers and Switches
Note Only routers and switches that have properly configured access points or bridges
attached to them will be discovered.
On each router and switch, configure the following:
Table6-5 Set Up Procedures for Routers and Switches
Task Procedure Notes
1. Enable CDP
and verify that
access points and
bridges are
visible from the
router or switch.
1. Enter enable mode.
2. Verify that CDP is running on the switch or
router:
On IOS-based devices, use the show cdp run
command.
On Hybrid OS-based Catalyst switches, use the
show cdp command
3. If CDP is not running, use the set cdp enable
command to enable CDP.
4. To verify that access points or bridges are
visible in the device’s CDP table, use the show
cdp neighbors command.
CDP is required for the
WLSE to discover the
device.
2. Enable SNMP
and set up
community
strings.
On IOS-based devices, enter configuration mode
and use the snmpcommunity community_string ro
command.
On Hybrid OS-based Catalyst devices, enter enable
mode and use the set snmp community read-only
community_string command.
SNMP is required for the
WLSE to discover and
manage the device.