Administrator Guide

Viewing Command History
The command-history trace feature captures all commands entered by all users of the system with a time stamp and writes
these messages to a dedicated trace log buffer.
The system generates a trace message for each executed command. No password information is saved to the file.
NOTE:
The timestamps display format of the show command history output changes based on the service timestamps
log datetime configuration. The time format can be in uptime, local time zone time or UTC time.
If timestamp is disabled (no service timestamps log) then command history time format is shown with timestamp
defaults (service timestamps log datetime localtime).
To view the command-history trace, use the show command-history command.
Example of the show command-history Command
Example 1: Default configuration service timestamps log datetime or service timestamps log datetime
localtime
DellEMC(conf)#service timestamps log datetime
DellEMC# show command-history
- Repeated 1 time.
[May 17 15:38:55]: CMD-(CLI):[service timestamps log datetime]by default from console
[May 17 15:41:40]: CMD-(CLI):[write memory]by default from console
- Repeated 1 time.
[May 17 15:41:45]: CMD-(CLI):[interface tengigabitethernet 1/1]by default from console
[May 17 15:41:47]: CMD-(CLI):[shutdown]by default from console
[May 17 15:41:50]: CMD-(CLI):[no shutdown]by default from console
[May 17 15:42:42]: CMD-(CLI):[show clock]by default from console
[May 17 15:42:52]: CMD-(CLI):[write memory]by default from console
- Repeated 1 time.
[May 17 15:43:08]: CMD-(CLI):[end]by default from console
[May 17 15:43:16]: CMD-(CLI):[show logging]by default from console
[May 17 15:43:22]: CMD-(CLI):[show command-history]by default from console
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Example 2: service timestamps log datetime utc
DellEMC(conf)#service timestamps log datetime utc
DellEMC# show command-history
- Repeated 1 time.
[May 17 15:46:44]: CMD-(CLI):[configure]by default from console
- Repeated 1 time.
[May 17 10:16:53]: CMD-(CLI):[service timestamps log datetime utc]by default from console
[May 17 10:17:05]: CMD-(CLI):[show clock]by default from console
[May 17 10:17:20]: CMD-(CLI):[show running-config]by default from console
[May 17 10:17:30]: CMD-(CLI):[interface tengigabitethernet 1/2]by default from console
[May 17 10:17:32]: CMD-(CLI):[shutdown]by default from console
[May 17 10:17:34]: CMD-(CLI):[no shutdown]by default from console
[May 17 10:17:40]: CMD-(CLI):[write memory]by default from console
- Repeated 1 time.
[May 17 10:17:46]: CMD-(CLI):[end]by default from console
[May 17 10:17:50]: CMD-(CLI):[show logging]by default from console
[May 17 10:17:56]: CMD-(CLI):[show command-history]by default from console
Example 3: service timestamps log uptime
DellEMC(conf)#service timestamps log uptime
DellEMC# show command-history
- Repeated 1 time.
[May 17 10:20:37]: CMD-(CLI):[configure]by default from console
- Repeated 1 time.
[1d0h24m]: CMD-(CLI):[service timestamps log uptime]by default from console
[1d0h24m]: CMD-(CLI):[interface tengigabitethernet 1/1]by default from console
[1d0h24m]: CMD-(CLI):[shutdown]by default from console
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