description

Syntax

description text

undo description

View

VLAN view, VLAN interface view

Default level

2: System level

Parameters

text: Specifies the description of a VLAN or VLAN interface. 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 specify a description, follow these guidelines:

Description

Use description to change the description of the VLAN or VLAN interface.

Use undo description to restore the default.

You can configure a description to describe the function or connection of a VLAN or VLAN interface for easy management.

Related commands: display interface vlan-interface and display vlan.

Examples

# Change the description of VLAN 2 to sales-private.

<Sysname> system-view
[Sysname] vlan 2
[Sysname-vlan2] description sales-private

# Change the description of VLAN-interface 2 to linktoPC56.

<Sysname> system-view
[Sysname] vlan 2
[Sysname-vlan2] quit
[Sysname] interface vlan-interface 2
[Sysname-Vlan-interface2] description linktoPC56