Cisco CCNA Basics-II: VTP password,VTP Transparent Mode and VTP pruning

Today I am going to talk about the configuration example of VTP password, configuring VTP Transparent Mode and VTP pruning. Below is the example showing the how to configure VTP password, VTP Transparent mode and VTP pruning.

Fig 1.2- VLAN Topology

Enabling VTP password

RouteXP #vtp password Cisco123#

//Setting device VLAN database password to Cisco123#.

RouteXP  #show vtp password

//VTP Password: Cisco123#.

RouteXP  #

Enabling VTP Transparent Mode

RouteXP  # configuration terminal

RouteXP  (config)# vtp transparent

// Setting device to VTP mode.

RouteXP  (config)# end

RouteXP  #

VTP Status Transparent Mode

RouteXP  # show vtp status 

VTP Version                                           : 2

 Configuration Revision                         : 247

 Maximum VLANs supported locally   : 1005

 Number of existing VLANs                 : 10

 VTP Operating Mode                           : Transparent

 VTP Domain Name                              : NB-Networks

 VTP Pruning Mode                              : Enabled

 VTP V2 Mode                                      : Disabled

 VTP Traps Generation                          : Disabled

 MD5 digest                                           : 0x13 0x14 0xNU 0xSO 0x10 0xC0 0xB4 0x19

RouteXP  #

Enabling VTP pruning

RouteXP  # vtp pruning

// Pruning switched ON

VTP Status

RouteXP  # show vtp status | include Pruning

//VTP Pruning Mode: Enabled

RouteXP  #