Configuration/Advanced/Description

To refresh the data displayed, click the Refresh button.

To remove the data, click the Delete button.

To find a port by the description, click the Find button.

Description

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Description

Description for the port, which provides a mapping between the physical port, or bonded interface, or bridge and a subscriber. This mapping improves device management without requiring extra documents to provide the mapping. Port description information can be entered for ports, bridges, or bond groups. Port description information is also searchable.

The rules for entering a port description are:

  • Port descriptions do not have to be unique.

  • The port description field is a text field 64 characters long.

  • Any characters can be used including spaces,$,@,-,.,etc. The only characters not supported are the double quote, ‘ “ ‘which is a delimiter to identify the beginning and end of the text string, the carat ‘^’, and the question mark ‘?’.

  • Port descriptions are associated with physical ports and not logical interfaces. For bonding technologies port descriptions are supported both on the physical port and the bond group, so if you want to use a keyword such as a company name to group interfaces.

  • Even though port descriptions are searchable, you cannot perform commands using port description. For example, you can not use a command like “bridge modify circuitName …”

April 3, 2012