MDS CLI


MDS CLI

Using the Cisco MDS CLI Abstract This technote will describe some of the Cisco MDS 9000 CLI unique features. Contents The Cisco MDS CLI This interface has been designed to allow administrators to continue to have the well-known Cisco IOS “look and feel” while managing the virtualization engines. This CLI gains access to the I/O process through the Shared Memory Interface directly, or through the IBM virtualization software CLI if the user desires to use that interface instead. Using the Cisco MDS CLI There are some features of the Cisco MDS CLI that are beneficial to new users as well as old. There are also some items that require familiarization. Here we will try to provide some help for anyone who is unfamiliar with this interface. Features These are some of the features of the CLI that you can employ to make entering commands easier: The Tab key will complete whatever is being typed if it is at the point of being unique. For example: Typing sv and then the Tab key will result in a listing of svc, svc-config, & svc-ibmcli. However, typing svc-c and then pressing the Tab key will result in svc-config being completed. The ? will provide help for the entire section of the CLI where the prompt is located if issued at the prompt. For example: issuing the ? at the initial prompt after logging in will produce a list of all of the Exec Commands. The ? will provide help for the current command when it is entered after the command and a space. For example: Typing show ? at the initial prompt after logging in will produce a list of all of the arguments that are valid for the show command. Once a command is unique, it does not have to be completed. For example: From the initial prompt after logging in, entering sh cl will result in the system date and time being returned. It is not necessary to type show clock in its entirety. The name of the section of the CLI the prompt is currently in is indicated by the prompt itself. For example: avan_sw2(config-zone)# indicates the zone configuration portion of the CLI is where the prompt is located. The CLI is structured in sections, and only commands from the current section can be executed. For example: when at the avan_sw2(config-zone)# section, doing zone configuration, the show command cannot be issued to find a WWPN (or PWWN) that needs to go in the zone. You must exit, get the information required, then return to the avan_sw2(config-zone)# section

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