Chapter 1
Distributing Device Alias Services
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For additional information, see the
Verifying Device Alias Configuration
To display device alias information, perform one of the following tasks:
Command
switch# show zoneset [active]
switch# show device-alias database
[pending | pending-diffs]
switch# show device-alias pwwn pwwn-id
|name device-name [pending]
switch# show flogi database [pending]
switch# show fcns database [pending]
The following example shows how to display device alias information in the zone set:
switch# show zoneset
zoneset name s1 vsan 1
zone name z1 vsan 1
zone name z2 vsan 1
The following example shows how to display pending changes in the device alias database:
switch# show device-alias database pending
The following example shows how to display a specific pWWN in the device alias database:
switch# show device-alias pwwn 21:01:00:e0:8b:2e:80:93 pending
The following example shows how to display the difference between the pending and effective device
alias databases:
switch# show device-alias database pending-diff
- device-alias name Doc pwwn 21:01:02:03:00:01:01:01
+ device-alias name SampleName pwwn 21:00:00:e0:8b:0b:66:56
Where available, device aliases are displayed regardless of a member being configured using a
device-alias command or a zone-specific member pwwn command.
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If the combined number of device entries in both databases exceeds the supported configuration
limit, then the merge will fail. For example, if database N has 6000 device aliases and database M
has 2192 device aliases, and you are running SAN-OS 3.0(x) or earlier, then this merge operation
will fail. Merge operations will also fail if there is a device alias mode mismatch.
pwwn 21:01:00:e0:8b:2e:80:93 [x] <---------------
pwwn 21:00:00:20:37:39:ab:5f [y]
pwwn 21:00:00:e0:8b:0b:66:56 [SampleName]
pwwn 21:00:00:20:37:39:ac:0d [z]
"CFS Merge Support" section on page
Purpose
Displays the device aliases in the zone set
information.
Displays the device alias database.
Displays the device alias information for the specified
pwwn or alias.
Displays device alias information the the flogi
database.
Displays device alias information the the fcns
database.
Device alias displayed for each pWWN.
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