HP To Search the Configuration for Ports with Friendly Port Names

Port Status and Basic Configuration

Using Friendly (Optional) Port Names

For a given port, if a friendly port name does not exist in the running-config file, the Name line in the above command output appears as:

Name : not assigned

To Search the Configuration for Ports with Friendly Port Names.

This option tells you which friendly port names have been saved to the startup­ config file. (show config does not include ports that have only default settings in the startup-config file.)

Syntax:	show config
	Includes friendly port names in a listing of all interfaces
	(ports) configured with non-default settings. Excludes
	ports that have neither a friendly port name nor any other
	non-default configuration settings.

For example, if you configure port A1 with a friendly port name:

This command sequence saves the friendly port name for port A1 in the startup­ config file, but does not do so for the name entered for port A2.

Listing includes friendly port name for port A1 only.

In this case, show config lists only port A1. Executing write mem after entering the name for port A2, and then executing show config again would result in a listing that includes both

Figure 10-15. Example Listing of the Startup-Config File with a Friendly Port Name Configured (and Saved)

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