[e-nsp] cisco / juniper / etc "description" equivalent for Extreme

[Sorin CONSTANTINESCU]

On 6/7/06, James Jun <james at towardex.com> wrote:
> Try doing:
>
> 'configure port %% display-string STRING'
>
> Where %% is the port number, STRING is what you want for description.

Thanks a lot!

>
> Trivia:  You can't put spaces or funky stuff on the STRING unfortunately,
> and you are limited to 32 chars.  This is really annoying IMHO, and one of
> things that Extreme should fix.  Because of this limitation, we have to end
> up putting just circuit ID's on the description for port instead of also
> including customer name like we can on Cisco.
>
> i.e. example:
>
> configure port 16 display-string "95HCGS172102MA1"
> configure port 17 display-string "95HCGS172103MA1"
> configure port 18 display-string "COLO_18"
> configure port 19 display-string "95HCGS172100MA1"
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> James Jun
> Managing Director
> TowardEX Technologies, Inc.
>
> Phone: +1 617-459-4051 x179
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>
> Email: james at towardex.com
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: extreme-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:extreme-nsp-
> > bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Sorin CONSTANTINESCU
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 3:21 PM
> > To: extreme-nsp at puck.nether.net
> > Subject: [e-nsp] cisco / juniper / etc "description" equivalent for
> > Extreme
> >
> > Hi, All.
> >
> > I'm very new with Extreme Networks equipment.
> >
> > For i couple of days i've beed playing with a couple of Summit48si,
> > but i haven't found a way to set description to interfaces. Is there a
> > way to know what's connected to a specific port other than keeping an
> > external list?
> >
> > I was also amused that in order to change the hostname i changed the
> > snmp sysName :)
> >
> > Running 7.4.2.6.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > Sorin CONSTANTINESCU
> > JNCIS-M, CCNP
> > consta at gmail.com
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Sorin CONSTANTINESCU
JNCIS-M, CCNP
consta at gmail.com