Description: The administrative system control status of LLDP module. The value 'start' (1) indicates that all resources required by LLDP module should be allocated and LLDP should be supported in the device on all ports. The value 'shutdown' (3) indicates that LLDP should be shutdown in the device on all ports and all allocated memory must be released.

Here, start and shutdown are configurable values. shutdownInProgress can only be read and cannot be wriiten. When 'shutdown' (3)is configured, the value is changed to 'shutdownInProgress' (2). This is because shutdownInProgress is used to indicate that shutdown process has been initiated by setting the object as shutdown but the process is not comitted. The value should be changed to shutdown once LLDP is shut on all ports and memory is released.