Adding An Interface Description To The Configuration; Example: Adding An Interface Description To The Configuration - Juniper JUNOS OS 10.4 - FOR EX REV 1 Manual

Adding an Interface Description to the Configuration

Example: Adding an Interface Description to the Configuration

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You can include a text description of each physical interface in the configuration file. Any
descriptive text you include is displayed in the output of the
and is also exposed in the
impact on the interface's configuration. To add a text description, include the
statement at the [edit interfaces interface-name]
[edit interfaces interface-name]
description text;
The description can be a single line of text. If the text contains spaces, enclose it in
quotation marks.
NOTE: You can configure the extended DHCP relay to include the interface
description in the option 82 Agent Circuit ID suboption. See Enabling and
Disabling Insertion of Option 82 Information in the Junos OS Subscriber Access
Configuration Guide.
For information about describing logical units, see "Adding a Logical Unit Description to
the Configuration" on page 1298.
Add a description to a Fast Ethernet interface:
[edit interfaces]
user@host#
set fe-0/0/1 description "Backbone connection to PHL01"
[edit interfaces]
user@host#
show
fe-0/0/1 {
description "Backbone connection to PHL01";
unit 0 {
family inet {
address 192.168.0.1/30;
}
}
}
To display the description from the router or switch CLI, use the
user@host>
show interfaces fe-0/0/1
Physical interface: fe-0/0/1, Enabled, Physical link is Up
Interface index: 129, SNMP ifIndex: 23
Description: Backbone connection to PHL01
...
To display the interface description from the interfaces MIB, use the
from a server. To isolate information for a specific interface, search for the interface index
Management Information Base (MIB) object. It has no
ifAlias
hierarchy level:
Chapter 58: Configuring Interfaces
show interfaces commands,
description
command:
show interfaces
command
snmpwalk
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