A Few Easy Steps: Cisco Switch, Disable VTP

In this session of A Few Easy Steps, we will be disabling VTP on a Cisco Switch. In General this will work on any Cisco Switch.

Session Prerequisites:

  • You have terminal or console access to your Cisco device.

Session Assumptions:

  • You do not use VTP in your Network
  • You want your Network to NOT implode

Our goals of this session are:

  • Set VTP to Transparent
  • Set VTP Domain to SwitchName

Set VTP to Transparent

!
conf t
!
vtp mode transparent
!
exit
!
copy running-config startup-config

Set VTP Domain to SwitchName

!
conf t
!
vtp domain SessionTestSW1
!
exit
!
copy running-config startup-config

Entire Session:

!
conf t
!
vtp mode transparent
!
vtp domain SessionTestSW1
!
exit
!
copy running-config startup-config

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