Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Command Reference Release 4.0(1a)N2(1) (OL-16599-01, March 2009)

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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Command Reference
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Chapter 9 Fibre Channel Show Commands
show device-alias
show device-alias
To display the device name information, use the show device-alias command.
show device-alias {database | merge status | name device-name [pending] | pending |
pending-diff | pwwn pwwn-id [pending] | session status | statistics | status
Syntax Description
Command Default 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
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
database Displays the entire device name database.
merge status Displays the device merge status.
name device-name Displays device name database information for a specific device name.
pending Displays the pending device name database information.
pending-diff Displays pending differences in the device name database information.
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 digit.
session status Displays the device name session status.
statistics Displays device name database statistics.
status Displays the device name database status.
Release Modification
4.0(0)N1(1a) This command was introduced.