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Port Status and Basic Configuration

Using Friendly (Optional) Port Names

Using Friendly (Optional) Port Names

Feature	Default	Menu	CLI	Web
Configure Friendly Port Names	Standard Port	n/a	page 35	n/a
	Numbering
Display Friendly Port Names	n/a	n/a	page 37	n/a

This feature enables you to assign alphanumeric port names of your choosing to augment automatically assigned numeric port names. This means you can configure meaningful port names to make it easier to identify the source of information listed by some Show commands. (Note that this feature augments port numbering, but does not replace it.)

Configuring and Operating Rules for Friendly Port

Names

■At either the global or context configuration level you can assign a unique name to any port on the switch. You can also assign the same name to multiple ports.

■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. (See “Displaying Friendly Port Names with Other Port Data” on page 10-37.)

■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.

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