Chapter 9
Fibre Channel Show Commands
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show device-alias
To display the device name information, use the show device-alias command.
Syntax Description
database
merge status
name device-name
pending
pending-diff
pwwn pwwn-id
session status
statistics
status
Command Default
None
Command Modes
EXEC mode.
Command History
Release
4.0(0)N1(1a)
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
The following example shows how to display all global fcaliases and all VSAN dependent fcaliases:
switch# show device-alias name efg
The following example shows how to display all global fcaliases and all VSAN dependent fcaliases:
switch# show device-alias statistics
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show device-alias {database | merge status | name device-name [pending] | pending |
pending-diff | pwwn pwwn-id [pending] | session status | statistics | status
Displays the entire device name database.
Displays the device merge status.
Displays device name database information for a specific device name.
Displays the pending device name database information.
Displays pending differences in the device name database information.
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 digit.
Displays the device name session status.
Displays device name database statistics.
Displays the device name database status.
Modification
This command was introduced.
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Command Reference
show device-alias
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