description
Syntax
description text
undo description
View
Ethernet interface view
Default level
2: System level
Parameters
text: Specifies the interface description, a string of 1 to 80 characters. The string can include case-sensitive letters, digits, special characters such as tilde (~), exclamation point (!), at sign (@), pound sign (#), dollar sign ($), percent sign (%), caret (^), ampersand sign (&), asterisk (*), left brace({), right brace (}), left parenthesis ((), right parenthesis ()), left bracket ([), right bracket (]), left angle bracket (<), right angle bracket (>), hyphen (-), underscore(_), plus sign (+), equal sign (=), vertical bar (|), back slash (\), colon (:), semi-colon (;) quotation marks ("), apostrophe ('), comma (,), dot (.), and slash (/), spaces, and other Unicode characters and symbols.
When you configure a description, follow these guidelines:
Each Unicode character takes the space of two regular characters.
To use Unicode characters or symbols in an interface description, install the specific input method editor and log in to the switch through remote login software that supports the character type.
When the length of a description string reaches or exceeds the maximum line width on the terminal software, the software starts a new line, possibly breaking a Unicode character into two. As a result, garbled characters may be displayed at the end of a line.
Description
Use description to change the description of the interface.
Use undo description to restore the default.
The default description of an interface is the interface name plus Interface. For example, Ethernet1/0/1 Interface.
Related commands: display interface.
Examples
# Change the description of interface Ethernet 1/0/1 to lanswitch-interface.
<Sysname> system-view [Sysname] interface ethernet 1/0/1 [Sysname-Ethernet1/0/1] description lanswitch-interface