HP ProCurve 1600M, Management And Configuration Manual

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Port Status and Configuration
Using Friendly (Optional) Port Names
■ The friendly port names you configure appear in the output of the
show
name [ port-list ]
,
show config
, and
show interface < port-number >
commands.
They do not appear in the output of other show commands or in Menu
interface screens. (Refer to “Displaying Friendly Port Names with Other
Port Data” on page 10-20.)
■ Friendly port names are not a substitute for port numbers in CLI com­
mands or Menu displays.
■ Trunking ports together does not affect friendly naming for the individual
ports. (If you want the same name for all ports in a trunk, you must
individually assign the name to each port.)
■ A friendly port name can have up to 64 contiguous alphanumeric charac­
ters.
■ Blank spaces within friendly port names are not allowed, and if used,
cause an
invalid input
error. (The switch interprets a blank space as a name
terminator.)
■ In a port listing,
not assigned
indicates that the port does not have a name
assignment other than its fixed port number.
■ To retain friendly port names across reboots, you must save the current
running-configuration to the startup-config file after entering the friendly
port names. (In the CLI, use the
write memory
command.)
Configuring Friendly Port Names
Syntax: interface < port-list > name < port-name-string >
Assigns a port name to port-list
.
Syntax: no interface < port-list > name
Deletes the port name from port-list.
Configuring a Single Port Name. Suppose that you have connected port
A3 on the switch to Bill Smith’s workstation, and want to assign Bill’s name
and workstation IP address (10.25.101.73) as a port name for port A3:
Figure 10-13. Example of Configuring a Friendly Port Name
10-19