HP VPN Firewall Appliances Network Management Command Reference

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Syntax
description text
undo description
Default
The default description of an interface is the interface name plus Interface. For example,
GigabitEthernet0/1 Interface.
Views
Ethernet interface view, Ethernet subinterface view
Default command level
2: System level
Parameters
text: Specifies the interface description, a string of 1 to 80 characters. The string can include
case-sensitive letters, digits, special characters such as tilde (~), exclamation point (!), at sign (@), pound
sign (#), dollar sign ($), percent sign (%), caret (^), ampersand sign (&), asterisk (*), left brace({), right
brace (}), left parenthesis ((), right parenthesis ()), left bracket ([), right bracket (]), left angle bracket (<),
right angle bracket (>), hyphen (-), underscore(_), plus sign (+), equal sign (=), vertical bar (|), back
slash (\), colon (:), semi-colon (;) quotation marks ("), apostrophe ('), comma (,), dot (.), and slash (/),
spaces, and other Unicode characters and symbols.
When you specify a description, follow these guidelines:
• Each Unicode character takes the space of two regular characters.
• To use Unicode characters or symbols in an interface description, install the specific input method
editor and log in to the device through remote login software that supports the character type.
• When the length of a description string reaches or exceeds the maximum line width on the terminal
software, the software starts a new line, possibly breaking a Unicode character in half. This might
result in garbled characters at the end of a line.
Examples
# Change the description of interface GigabitEthernet 0/1 to lanswitch-interface.
<Sysname> system-view
[Sysname] interface gigabitethernet 0/1
[Sysname-GigabitEthernet0/1] description lanswitch-interface
# Change the description of Ethernet subinterface GigabitEthernet 0/1.1 to l2-subinterface0/1.1.
<Sysname> system-view
[Sysname] interface gigabitethernet 0/1.1
[Sysname-GigabitEthernet0/1.1] description l2-subinterface0/1.1
Related commands
display interface
display interface
Use display interface to display Ethernet interface information.
Syntax
display interface [ interface-type ] [ brief [ down ] ] [ | { begin | exclude | include } regular-expression ]