CDP agent for Windows servers

burleyman · ‎11-20-2007

Does anyone know of a good CDP agent (free) for Windows servers that will allow CDP information from the servers to be sent to the switch?

Thanks,

Mike

Joe Clarke · ‎11-20-2007

While I have personally not used it (I use FreeBSD for my servers), some of our customers have reported success with Tallsoft's CDP monitor. Not sure about cost, though.

http://www.tallsoft.com/cdpmonitor.htm

burleyman · ‎11-20-2007

I checked and it costs $10 per server for what I would need...I was hoping for a free one out there.

Mike

Joseph W. Doherty · ‎07-22-2023

There might not be a free one because, as far as I know, CDP is proprietary, and I don't believe Cisco has released it into the public domain.

jluisrev1 · ‎07-22-2023

An alternative may be considering using lldp instead. It's on by default on Windows PCs.

Georg Pauwen · ‎07-23-2023

Hello,

I found the procedure linked below, it involves a Python script. Not sure if that works on a Windows server...

https://docs.cloudera.com/cdp-public-cloud/cloud/cli/topics/mc-install-cdp-client-on-windows.html

Joseph W. Doherty · ‎07-23-2023

Are we all discussing the same "CDP" (Cisco Discovery Protocol)?

Georg Pauwen · ‎07-23-2023

Hello Joseph,

I hope so. My bad if I sent a link that is not related, but it looks like CDP related...(?)

Joseph W. Doherty · ‎07-23-2023

"but it looks like CDP related...(?)"

Laugh - CDP, definitely, Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP), I suspect not. Seems to part of some expansive cloud management/monitoring. Honestly, couldn't find a clear definition of what its CDP stands for.