
Port Status and Basic Configuration
Using Friendly (Optional) Port Names
Configuring and Operating Rules for Friendly Port
Names
■ At either the global or context configuration level you can assign a unique
name to a port. 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 10-21.)
■ 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.
■ To retain friendly port names across reboots, you must save the current
running-configuration to the startup-config file after entering the friendly
port names. (In the CLI, use the write memory command.)
Configuring Friendly Port Names
Syntax: interface < port-list > name < port-name-string >
Assigns a port name to port-list.
Syntax: no interface < port-list > name
Deletes the port name from port-list.
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