Creating access policies

Access policies control the operation of switch ports, allowing connectivity to resources such as storage and compute, hypervisors, and layer 4 to layer 7 devices and protocols such as CDP, LLDP, and STP.

In this recipe, we are going to look at access policies and enable a preconfigured policy. We will then look at how to override this policy on a per-port basis, and also to override blocks of ports on a leaf.

How to do it...

1. From the Fabric menu, select Access Policies. Go to Interface Policies | Policies | CDP Interface. We can see that there is already a default policy:

2. The default is for CDP to be disabled. So switch the Admin State to Enabled, and click on SUBMIT in the bottom corner of the window:

3. This has enabled CDP globally, but what if we need to be a little more selective and disable on a single port?

 

4. Right-click on CDP Interface and select Create CDP Interface Policy.

 

5. Name the new policy CDP-OFF and set the state to Disabled.

6. Click on SUBMIT.
7. We now have two...