description
Syntax
description text;
Hierarchy Level
[edit interfaces interface-name]
Release Information
Statement introduced in Junos OS Release 9.0 for EX Series switches.
Description
Provide a textual description of the interface or the logical unit. Any descriptive text you include is displayed in the output of the show interfaces commands and is also exposed in the ifAlias Management Information Base (MIB) object. It has no effect on the operation of the interface or the switch.
Default
No textual description is configured.
Options
text—Text to describe the interface. If the text includes spaces, enclose the entire text in straight quotation marks.
Required Privilege Level
interface—To view this statement in the
configuration.
interface-control—To add this
statement to the configuration.
Related Topics
- Configuring Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces (CLI Procedure)
- Configuring Gigabit Ethernet Interfaces (J-Web Procedure)
- Junos OS Network Interfaces Configuration Guide at http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos/index.html
