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Cisco MDS 9000 Family Command Reference
OL-18089-01, Cisco MDS NX-OS Release 4.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
The following example shows how to display all global fcaliases and all VSAN dependent fcaliases:
switch#
show device-alias statistics
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.