Configure Description on Port Channel

About this task

Configure “description” per EFA port-channel which gets configured on SLX port-channel. The default value of po “description” is “EFA Port-channel <efa-po-name>”. You can configure PO “description” during po create and po update operations.

Note

Note

When you upgrade from EFA 2.3.2 to EFA 2.4.0 and above, all the POs contains the default “description” and is displayed as part of efa tenant po show --detail.

Procedure

  1. Configure Description when you create a Port-Channel.
    efa tenant po create --name <po-name> --tenant <tenant-name> --description <po-description> 
                   --speed <100Mbps|1Gbps|10Gbps|25Gbps|40Gbps|100Gbps> --negotiation <active|passive|static> 
    	--port <list-of-po-members> --min-link-count <min-link-count> --number <po-number> --lacp-timeout <short|long>
    
  2. Configure Description when you update a Port-Channel.
    efa tenant po update --name <po-name> --tenant <tenant-name> 
                  --operation <port-add|port-delete|lacp-timeout|description|min-link-count>
                  --port <list-of-po-members> --lacp-timeout string <short|long> --min-link-count <min-link-count> 
                  --description <po-description>
    

    Example

    efa tenant po create --name ten1po1 --tenant ten1 --port 10.20.246.15[0/1],10.20.246.16[0/1] --speed 10Gbps --negotiation active --description tenant1po1
    
    
    efa tenant po create --name ten1po2 --tenant ten1 --port 10.20.246.15[0/2],10.20.246.16[0/2] --speed 10Gbps --negotiation active
    
    efa tenant po update --name ten1po1 --tenant ten1 --operation description --description tenat1po1changed
    

    efa tenant po show --name ten1po1 --tenant ten1 --detail

    efa tenant po show --name ten1po2 --tenant ten1 --detail

    Name            : ten1po1
    Tenant          : ten1
    ID              : 1
    Description     : tenat1po1changed
    Speed           : 10Gbps
    Negotiation     : active
    Min Link Count  : 1
    Lacp Timeout    : long
    Ports           : 10.20.246.15[0/1]
                    : 10.20.246.16[0/1]
    State           : po-created
    Dev State       : provisioned
    App State       : cfg-in-sync
    
    Name            : ten1po2
    Tenant          : ten1
    ID              : 2
    Description     : EFA Port-channel ten1po2
    Speed           : 10Gbps
    Negotiation     : active
    Min Link Count  : 1
    Lacp Timeout    : long
    Ports           : 10.20.246.15[0/2]
                    : 10.20.246.16[0/2]
    State           : po-created
    Dev State       : provisioned
    App State       : cfg-in-sync