Chapter 1
CLI Overview
S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o m d s f e e d b a c k - d o c @ c i s c o . c o m
You can also gather specific information on the entire switch configuration by issuing the relevant show
commands. Configurations are displayed based a specified feature, interface, module, or VSAN.
Available show commands for each feature are briefly described in this section and listed at the end of
each chapter.
Examples
Example 1-4
switch# show interface fc1/1
fc1/1 is up
Example 1-5
switch# show version
Cisco Storage Area Networking Operating System (SAN-OS) Software
TAC support: http://www.cisco.com/tac
Copyright (c) 2002-2006, Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
The copyrights to certain works contained herein are owned by
other third parties and are used and distributed under license.
Some parts of this software may be covered under the GNU Public
License or the GNU Lesser General Public License. A copy of
each such license is available at
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html and
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html
Software
BIOS:
loader:
kickstart: version 3.0(3) [gdb]
system:
BIOS compile time:
kickstart image file is: bootflash:///boot-3.0.3
kickstart compile time:
system image file is:
system compile time:
Hardware
cisco MDS 9509 ("Supervisor/Fabric-1")
Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU with 1028604 kB of memory.
bootflash:
slot0:
172.22.31.238
OL-16217-01, Cisco MDS SAN-OS Release 3.x
1-4
to
1-10
display a few show command examples.
Displays Details on the Specified Interface
Hardware is Fibre Channel, 20:01:ac:16:5e:4a:00:00
vsan is 1
Port mode is E
Speed is 1 Gbps
Beacon is turned off
FCID is 0x0b0100
0 frames input, 0 bytes, 0 discards
0 runts, 0 jabber, 0 too long, 0 too short
0 input errors, 0 CRC, 0 invalid transmission words
0 address id, 0 delimiter
0 EOF abort, 0 fragmented, 0 unknown class
0 frames output, 0 bytes, 0 discards
Received 0 OLS, 0 LRR, 0 NOS, 0 loop inits
Transmitted 0 OLS, 0 LRR, 0 NOS, 0 loop inits
Displays the Software and Hardware Version
version 1.1.0
version 1.2(2)
version 3.0(3) [gdb]
251904 kB
251904 kB
kernel uptime is 0 days 0 hour 2 minute(s) 2 second(s)
10/24/03
9/15/2006 10:00:00 [10/02/2006 06:26:25]
bootflash:///isan-3.0.3
9/15/2006 10:00:00 [10/02/2006 06:45:25]
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Command Reference
Navigating Through CLI Commands
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