Cisco MDS 9000 Series Command Reference

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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Command Reference
OL-8413-07, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.x
Chapter 22 Show Commands
show device-alias
show device-alias
To display the device name information, use the show device-alias command.
show device-alias {database [pending | pending-diff] | name device-name [pending] | pwwn
pwwn-id [pending] | statistics | status]
Syntax Description
Defaults None.
Command Modes EXEC mode.
Command History
Usage Guidelines To make use of fcaliases as device names instead of using the cryptic device name, add only one member
per fcalias.
Examples The following example shows how to display the contents of the device alias database.
switch# show device-alias database
device-alias name efg pwwn 21:00:00:20:37:9c:48:e5
device-alias name fred pwwn 10:00:00:00:c9:2d:5a:de
device-alias name myalias pwwn 21:21:21:21:21:21:21:21
device-alias name test pwwn 21:00:00:20:37:6f:db:bb
device-alias name test2 pwwn 21:00:00:20:37:a6:be:35
Total number of entries = 5
The following example shows how to display all global fcaliases and all VSAN dependent fcaliases.
switch# show device-alias name efg
device-alias name efg pwwn 21:00:00:20:37:9c:48:e5
database Displays the entire device name database.
pending Displays the pending device name database information.
pending-diff Displays pending differences in the device name database information.
name device-name Displays device name database information for a specific device name.
pwwn pwwn-id Displays device name database information for a specific pWWN. The
format is hh:hh:hh:hh:hh:hh:hh:hh, where h is a hexadecimal number.
statistics Displays device name database statistics.
status Displays the device name database status.
Release Modification
2.0(x) This command was introduced.

Cisco MDS 9000 Series Specifications

General

Brand	Cisco
Model	MDS 9000 Series
Category	Switch
Language	English