HP VPN Firewall Appliances Network Management Configuration Guide
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Bulk configuring interfaces
Bulk configuring interfaces can be configured only at the CLI.
You can enter interface range view to bulk configure multiple interfaces with the same feature instead of
configuring them one by one. For example, you can perform the shutdown command in interface range
view to shut down a range of interfaces.
Command application failure on one member interface does not affect the application of the command
on the other member interfaces. If applying a command on one member interface fails, the system
displays an error message and continues with the next member interface.
Configuration guidelines
When you bulk configure interfaces in interface range view, follow these restrictions and guidelines:
• In interface range view, only the commands supported by the first interface are available.
• If you cannot enter the view of an interface by using the interface interface-type { interface-number
| interface-number.subnumber } command, do not configure the interface as the first interface in the
interface range.
• Do not assign an aggregate interface or any of its member interfaces to an interface range at the
same time. Some commands, after being executed on both an aggregate interface and its member
interfaces, can break up the aggregation.
• No limit is set on the maximum number of interfaces in an interface range. The more interfaces in
an interface range, the longer the command execution time.
• The maximum number of interface range names is only limited by the system resources. To
guarantee bulk interface configuration performance, configure interface range names fewer than
1000.
Configuration procedure
To bulk configure interfaces:
Ste
p
Command
Remarks
1. Enter system view.
system-view N/A
2. Enter interface range
view.
• Method 1:
interface range { interface-type
interface-number [ to interface-type
interface-number ] } &<1-5>
• Method 2:
interface range name name [ interface
{ interface-type interface-number [ to
interface-type interface-number ] } &<1-5> ]
Use either method.
In method 2, you assign a
name to an interface range
and can specify this name
rather than the interface
range to enter the interface
range view.