Administrator Guide

Enabling Link Dampening
To enable link dampening, use the following command.
● Enable link dampening.
INTERFACE mode
dampening
To view the link dampening configuration on an interface, use the show config command.
R1(conf-if-te-1/1)#show config
!
interface TenGigabitEthernet 1/1
ip address 10.10.19.1/24
dampening 1 2 3 4
no shutdown
To view dampening information on all or specific dampened interfaces, use the show interfaces dampening command
from EXEC Privilege mode.
DellEMC#show interfaces dampening
Interface Supp Flaps Penalty Half-Life Reuse Suppress Max-Sup
State
Te 1/1 Up 0 0 1 2 3 4
Te 1/2 Up 0 0 1 2 3 4
Te 1/2 Up 0 0 1 2 3 4
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To view a dampening summary for the entire system, use the show interfaces dampening summary command from
EXEC Privilege mode.
DellEMC# show interfaces dampening summary
20 interfaces are configured with dampening. 3 interfaces are currently suppressed.
Following interfaces are currently suppressed:
Te 1/2
Te 3/1
Te 4/2
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Clearing Dampening Counters
To clear dampening counters and accumulated penalties, use the following command.
● Clear dampening counters.
clear dampening
DellEMC# clear dampening interface Te 1/1
DellEMC#show interfaces dampening Tengigabitethernet 1/1
Interface Supp Flaps Penalty Half-Life Reuse Suppress Max-Sup
State
Te 1/1 Up 0 0 1 2 3 4
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Link Dampening Support for XML
View the output of the following show commands in XML by adding | display xml to the end of the command.
● show interfaces dampening
● show interfaces dampening summary
● show interfaces interface slot/port
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Interfaces