description

Sets the description for a route map, listener policy, interface, mirror object, or a Quality of Service (QoS) forwarding group.

Syntax

description description-string
no description

Parameters

description-string
Specifies the description of the route map, listener policy, interface, mirror object, or forwarding group.
Maximum length of the description is 63 characters. Special characters are allowed.

Modes

Route-map config mode

Listener-policy config mode

Interface config mode

Mirror config mode

QoS config mode

Usage Guidelines

This command is available only to users with the admin role.

Examples

The following examples show how to configure a description for an interface.

device# configure terminal
device(config)# route
device(config-if-eth 1/10)# description Ethernet Interface 1/10 (100G)

device# show running interface ethernet 1/10 
interface ethernet 1/10 
description Ethernet Interface 1/10 (100G) 
shutdown

The following examples show how to configure a description for a listener policy.

device# configure terminal
device(config)# listener-policy lp-12
device(config-listener-policy)# description listener policy 12

device# show listener-policy lp-12 
interface ethernet 1/10 
description listener-policy 12
shutdown

The following example shows how to configure a description for a route map.

device# configure terminal
device(config)# route-map rmap10
device(config-route-map)# description rmap10 configured Month Date, Year
The following example displays the specified route-map.
device# show route-map rmap10 
interface ethernet 1/10 
description rmap10 configured Month Date, Year
no shutdown

The following examples show how to configure a description for a mirror object, then display the mirror object.

device(config)# mirror mirr_1 
device(config-mirror)# description mirror-1 

device# show mirror mirr_1 

                  Name : mirr_1 
           Description : mirror-1 
             Interface : none
The following example shows how to create a description of a QoS forwarding group.
device#(config-qos-group)# description group-for-site-A-to-B