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Chapter 5 D Commands
device-alias mode enhanced
device-alias mode enhanced
To configure device aliases to operate in enhanced mode, use the
device-alias mode enhanced
command. To disable this feature, use the
no
form of the command.
device-alias mode enhanced
no device-alias mode enhanced
Syntax Description
This command has no arguments or keywords.
Defaults
Basic mode.
Command Modes
Configuration mode.
Command History
Usage Guidelines
When a device alias is configured in basic mode, which is the default mode, all the applications operate
like 3.0 switches. For example, when you attempt to configure the device aliases, immediately the device
alias are expanded to a PWWN. This operation continues until the mode is changed to enhanced.
Whena device alias is configured in enhanced mode, all the applications accept a device alias name in
its native format, instead of expanding the device alias to a PWWN, the device alias name is stored in
the configuration and distributed in its native device alias format.
To use enhanced mode, all switches in the fabric must be running in the Cisco SAN-OS Release 3.1(1)
or later, or NX-OS 4.1(1b) later.
Note
Enhanced mode, or native device alias based configurations are not accepted in interop mode. VSANs.
IVR zoneset activation will fail in interop mode VSANs if the corresponding zones have native device
alias-based members
Examples
The following example shows how to configure the device alias in enhanced mode:
switch#
config terminal
switch(config)#
device-alias mode enhanced
switch(config)#
Related Commands
Release
Modification
3.1(1)
This command was introduced.
Command
Description
device-alias commit
Commits changes to the active device alias database.