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Fabric OS Command Reference

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aliShow

Displays zone alias information.

Synopsis

alishow ["pattern"][, mode]

Description

Use this command to display zone configuration information.

Use the pattern operand to display only matching zone alias names in the defined configuration.

Notes

The execution of this command is subject to Virtual Fabric or Admin Domain restrictions that may
be in place. Refer to chapter 1, "Using Fabric OS Commands" and Appendix A, "Command
Availability" for details.

When an FCS policy is enabled, this command can be issued only from the primary FCS switch.

Operands

When invoked without an operand, this command displays all zone configuration information
(defined and effective). Refer to cfgShow for a description of this display. The following operands
are optional:

“pattern”

A POSIX-style regular expression that matches zone alias names. This
operand must be enclosed in quotation marks. Patterns may contain:

•

Question mark (?) - matches any single character.

•

Asterisk (*) - matches any string of characters.

•

Range - matches any character within the range. Ranges must be
enclosed in brackets: for example, [0-9] or [a-f].

mode

Specify 0 to display the contents of the transaction buffer (the contents of the
current transaction), or specify 1 to display the contents of the nonvolatile
memory. The default value is 0.

If no parameters are specified, all zone configuration information (both defined and effective) is
displayed. Refer to cfgShow for a description of this display.

Examples

To display all zone aliases beginning with “arr”:

switch:admin>

alishow "arr*"

alias: array1 21:00:00:20:37:0c:76:8c

alias: array2 21:00:00:20:37:0c:66:23