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Chapter 13 Configuring VTP
Monitoring VTP
Note
You can use the vtp mode transparent global configuration command or the vtp transparent VLAN
configuration command to disable VTP on the switch, and then change its VLAN information without
affecting the other switches in the VTP domain.
Monitoring VTP
You monitor VTP by displaying VTP configuration information: the domain name, the current VTP
revision, and the number of VLANs. You can also display statistics about the advertisements sent and
received by the switch.
shows the privileged EXEC commands for monitoring VTP activity.
This is an example of output from the show vtp status privileged EXEC command:
Switch# show vtp status
VTP Version : 2
Configuration Revision : 25
Maximum VLANs supported locally : 1005
Number of existing VLANs : 69
VTP Operating Mode : Server
VTP Domain Name : test
VTP Pruning Mode : Disabled
VTP V2 Mode : Disabled
VTP Traps Generation : Disabled
MD5 digest : 0x59 0xBA 0x92 0xA4 0x74 0xD5 0x42 0x29
Configuration last modified by 0.0.0.0 at 3-1-93 00:18:42
Local updater ID is 10.1.1.59 on interface Vl1 (lowest numbered VLAN interface found)
This is an example of output from the show vtp counters privileged EXEC command:
Switch# show vtp counters
VTP statistics:
Summary advertisements received : 20
Subset advertisements received : 0
Request advertisements received : 0
Summary advertisements transmitted : 11
Subset advertisements transmitted : 0
Request advertisements transmitted : 0
Number of config revision errors : 0
Number of config digest errors : 0
Number of V1 summary errors : 0
VTP pruning statistics:
Trunk Join Transmitted Join Received Summary advts received from
non-pruning-capable device
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Table 13-3 VTP Monitoring Commands
Command
Purpose
show vtp status
Display the VTP switch configuration information.
show vtp counters
Display counters about VTP messages that have been sent and received.