Enable CDP on UCSC series servers

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06-01-2017 11:00 AM - edited 03-01-2019 01:12 PM
I would like to enable CDP on UCSC servers so that it will show up in 'show cdp neighbor' in the TOR switch.
By default, I don't see CDP is enabled.
Would you let me know how to enable CDP on the UCSC server
Thanks
Thanh
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06-01-2017 11:58 AM
CDP is a protocol normally provided by a switch/router or switch type device (i.e. ESXi host with vswitch).
A compute device not running anything like ESXi with vswitch or N1k, is not going to send out CDP.
What OS do you have installed?
Thanks,
Kirk...

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06-01-2017 03:37 PM
Hi Kirk
Thanks for your respond.
I have a mix of both. I have ESXi 6.0 installed on some servers and Redhat Openstack on other servers. I want to have APIC-EM to discover all of the devices in my lab network. Thus, the need of enable CDP on UCS server
Thanks
THanh
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06-01-2017 05:47 PM
Greetings.
To enable CDP in ESXi, see https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&externalId=1003885
To enable LLDP in ESXi, see https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.networking.doc%2FGUID-FA7A38BA-002B-4AF0-B50A-9F371B2AF06A.html
For RedHat you may want to consider enabling LLDP, which I 'think' APIC-EM can also use.
Thanks,
Kirk...

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06-02-2017 10:10 AM
Thank you Kirk for the information. Will check them out.
Thanh
