LLDP overview
LLDP enables a station attached to an IEEE 802 LAN/MAN to advertise its capabilities to, and to discover, other stations in the same 802 LAN segments.
The information distributed by LLDP (the advertisement) is stored by the receiving
device in a standard Management Information Base (MIB), accessible by a Network Management
System (NMS) using a management protocol such as the Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP). The information also can be viewed from the CLI, using
show LLDP commands.
The following diagram illustrates LLDP connectivity
