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Support for LLDP (future proofing L2 Discovery)

rcahill over 15 years ago

A quick forum search for "lldp" indicated that no one else has requested this.

The Link Layer Discovery Protocol or LLDP is a vendor-neutral Layer 2 protocol that allows a network device to advertise its identity and capabilities on the local network. The protocol was formally ratified as IEEE standard 802.1AB-2005 in May 2005. It supersedes proprietary protocols like Cisco Discovery Protocol, Extreme Discovery Protocol and Nortel Discovery Protocol (also known as SONMP).

Currently Cisco's propietary CDP is the only L2 discovery protocol in use in NCM and since 12.35 or so Cisco's IOS is now supporting this IEEE standard. It may be in the community's best interest to extend the reach and support for a wider and diverse set of networking devices.

I know Cisco (recent), Dell, Extreme, Juniper, Fore, and Force10 support LLDP. There are probably a long list of other vendors.

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0 chris.lapoint over 15 years ago

Thanks for the suggestion and we definitely hear you. LANsurveyor actually leverages both CDP and LLDP. We plan on incorporating the discovery technology from LANsurveyor into our Orion platform so we'll be able to take full advantage of LLDP in future releases.
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0 plaisthos over 13 years ago in reply to chris.lapoint

Is there any progress on this topic? It would be cool to see like "devices (lldp/cdp) attached to this port", somehting I cannot do in a nice way with universal pollers
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0 ctopaloglu over 13 years ago in reply to plaisthos

This would be very nice indeed!!! Count me.
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0 trevino200 over 13 years ago in reply to ctopaloglu

Would Like to see this too. Has this been implemented yet into Orion?
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0 dfairles over 13 years ago in reply to trevino200

Add me to the list, as we are moving towards Juniper.
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0 Simmons4102 over 13 years ago in reply to dfairles

Chiming in on this one too. like dfairles We're also leaning towards Juniper.
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0 smartd over 13 years ago in reply to Simmons4102

Here too. We have 116 Juniper EX switches, and 56 Netscreen firewalls.
Would like LLDP as well, and have asked on the NPM forum for LLDP discovery. Would like it for LLDP inventory in NCM just like the CDP inventory and expose these values to the Config Change Template system.
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0 christineb over 13 years ago in reply to smartd

Hi everyone - we are definitely tracking this request. For internal people it's FB26412. It hasn't made it to the road map yet, but I'm watching it as more customers express interest.
--Christine
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0 smartd over 13 years ago in reply to christineb

As I've stated elsewhere, you guys need a way for customers to vote on the wish list. I suggest the facility that Yammer uses...
This is hosted by http://uservoice.com/ . They allow you to add suggestions, vote on them, and track them. Awesome.
-=Dan=-
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0 smartd over 13 years ago in reply to smartd

An additional comment... I'd like the ability to share with Solarwinds my inventory summary. I'd like you to know the numbers of devices I manage THAT ARE NOT CISCO devices.
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