Assigning Port Names; Displaying The Port Name For An Interface - Brocade Communications Systems FastIron Administration Manual

Assigning port names

NOTE
Stacking is not supported on FSX devices.
Assigning port names
You can assign text strings as port names, which help you identify ports with meaningful names. You
can assign port names to individual ports or to a group of ports. You can assign a port name to
physical ports, virtual interfaces, and loopback interfaces.
Assigning a port name
To assign a name to a port, enter commands such as the following:
device(config)# interface ethernet 2
device(config-if-e1000-2)# port-name Marsha
Syntax: port-name text
The text parameter is an alphanumeric string. The name can be up to 255 characters long. The name
can contain blanks. You do not need to use quotation marks around the string, even when it contains
blanks. The port name can contain special characers as well, but the percentage character (%), if it
appears at the end of the port name, is dropped.
Assigning the same name to multiple ports
To assign a name to a range of ports, enter commands such as the following:
Brocade (config)# interface ethernet 1/1/1 to 1/1/10
Brocade (config-mif-1/1/1-1/1/10)# port-name connected-to-the nearest device
Syntax: [no] port-name text
To remove the assigned port name, use no form of the command.
The text parameter is an alphanumeric string, up to 255 characters long. The name can contain
blanks. You do not need to use quotation marks around the string, even when it contains blanks.
You can also specify the individual ports, separated by space.
To assign a name to multiple specific ports, enter commands such as the following:
Brocade (config)# interface ethernet 1/1/1 ethernet 1/1/5 ethernet 1/1/7
Brocade (config-mif-1/1/1, 1/1/5, 1/1/7)# port-name connected-to-the nearest device

Displaying the port name for an interface

You can use the show interface brief command to display the name assigned to the port. If any of
the ports have long port names, they are truncated. To show full port names, use the show interfaces
brief wide command.
Brocade# show interfaces brief
Port
MAC
Name
1/1/23
56
Link State Dupl Speed Trunk Tag Pvid Pri
Up Forward Full 1G None No 1 0 748e.f82d.7a16 connected-
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