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-gi-1/1)#show config
!
interface GigabitEthernet 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
Gi 1/2 Up 0 0 1 2 3 4
Gi 1/2 Up 0 0 1 2 3 4
Gi 1/3 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:
Gi 1/2
Gi 3/1
Gi 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 Gi 1/1
DellEMC#show interfaces dampening Gigabitethernet 1/1
Interface Supp Flaps Penalty Half-Life Reuse Suppress Max-Sup
State
Gi 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
Interfaces
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