HP VPN Firewall Appliances Network Management Command Reference

Default

The description for a VLAN is VLAN vlan-id, which is the ID of the VLAN. For example, the default

description of VLAN 100 is VLAN 0100. The default description for a VLAN interface is the name of the

interface. For example, the default description of VLAN-interface 1 is Vlan-interface1 Interface.

Views

VLAN view, VLAN interface view

Default command level

2: System level

Parameters

text: Specifies a description for a VLAN or VLAN interface. 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.

• For a VLAN, this is a string of 1 to 32 characters.

• For a VLAN interface, this is a string of 1 to 80 characters.

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 into two and

creating garbled characters at the end of a line.

Usage guidelines

Configure a description to describe the function or connection of a VLAN or VLAN interface for easy

management.

Examples

# Change the description of VLAN 2 to sales-private.

<Sysname> system-view

[Sysname] vlan 2

[Sysname-vlan2] description sales-private

# Change the description of VLAN-interface 2 to linktoPC56.

<Sysname> system-view

[Sysname] vlan 2

[Sysname-vlan2] quit

[Sysname] interface vlan-interface 2

[Sysname-Vlan-interface2] description linktoPC56

Related commands

• display interface vlan-interface

• display vlan