Enable CDP on UCSC series servers

[tchoang]

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

[Kirk J]

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...

[tchoang]

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

[Kirk J]

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...

[tchoang]

Thank you Kirk for the information.  Will check them out.

Thanh