CLI Guide

• suppress-threshold should be greater than reuse-threshold
• max-suppress-time should be at least 4 times half-life
NOTE: You cannot apply dampening on an interface that is monitoring traffic
for other interfaces.
Example
Dell(conf-if-te-3/2)#dampening 20 800 4500 120
Dell(conf-if-te-3/2)#
Related
Commands
clear dampening — clears the dampening counters on all the interfaces or just the
specified interface.
show interfaces dampening — displays interface dampening information.
description
Assign a descriptive text string to the interface.
Syntax
description desc_text
To delete a description, enter no description command.
Parameters
desc_text Enter a text string up to 240 characters long.
Defaults No description is defined.
Command Modes INTERFACE
Supported Modes All Modes
Command History
Version Description
9.9(0.0) Introduced on the FN IOM.
9.4(0.0) Supported on the FN I/O Aggregator.
8.3.17.0 Supported on the M I/O Aggregator.
Usage Information
• Spaces between characters are not preserved after entering this command
unless you enclose the entire description in quotation marks (“desc_text”).
• Entering a text string after the default vlan-id command overwrites any
previous text string configured as the description.
• The show tdr and default vlan-id commands are the only commands
that you can configure on an interface that is a member of a port-channel.
• Use the show interfaces description command to display descriptions
configured for each interface.
Related
commands
show interfaces description — Displays the description field of interfaces.
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Interfaces