Configuring Friendly Port Names - HP ProCurve Management And Configuration Manual

The friendly port names you configure appear in the output of the show
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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
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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
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ters.
Blank spaces within friendly port names are not allowed, and if used,
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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
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assignment other than its fixed port number.
To retain friendly port names across reboots, you must save the current
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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
Port Status and Configuration
Using Friendly (Optional) Port Names
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