Commands included in Show tech-support
Show tech-support is one of the common command that we use in Cisco switches to collect almost all information about the switch.It is very useful for
troubleshooting purpose.The output of this command can be provided to technical support representatives when reporting a problem.
To Collect Information from Cisco Switch Use the below mentioned commands
# term len 0
# show tech-support details
Show tech-support will provide a combined output of several other show commands output.
The default output of the show tech-support command includes the output of the following commands:
show version
show environment
show module
show hardware
show running-config
show interface
show accounting log
show processes
Useful cisco SAN Switch CLIs commands
I am sharing some useful Cisco CLI commands and also the procedure to do zoning using Cisco CLI commands
Below are the some of the useful Cisco CLI commands
Show Commands
Command
show clock
show environment
show fcalias
show interface
brief
show interface
counters
show interface
counters brief
show interface
transceiver
show runningconfig
show interface
mgmt0
show vsan xX
show module
show interface
fcx/x capabilities
show portresources module x
show interface
trunk vsan x-x
show vsan
membership
interface fcx/x x
show vsan x
membership
show version
Description
To display the system date and time and verify the
time zone configuration, use the show clock
command.
To display all environment-related switch
information (status of chassis clock,fan modules,
power supply modules etc
To display the member name information in a Fibre
Channel alias (fcalias),
shows the status of the ports on the switch
port errors and details of transmission
port transmission details in brief
shows details of the sfps used on the ports of the
switch
show the details of the switch, ports , firmware , etc
To display the details of the management console
To display details of a VSAN
To display details of the switching module
To details of the matrix support for that port
To check port resources like bb credits , rate mode ,
bandwidth for ports on a 24/48 bit module
To checkper vsan information on trunk ports
To check the vsan membership on port level for an
interface
To check the ports that are part of a vsan
To display the version of system software that is
currently running on the switch, use the show
version command.
To display information about configured VSAN
To check the vsans created and available vsan ids
to be created
show vsan
show vsan usage
show wwn
show zone
show zoneset
show zoneset
active vsan xx
show flogi
show hardware
show port-channel
show runningconfig
show startupconfig
show switchname
show tech-support
show user-account
show fc-tunnel
To display the status of the WWN configuration
To display zone information
To display the configured zone sets
To display the active zoneset for a particular vsan
To list all the FLOGI sessions through all interfaces
across all VSANs
To display switch hardware inventory details,
Use the show port-channel command to view
information about existing PortChannel
configurations.
To display the running configuration file
To display the startup configuration file
To display the switch network name, use the show
switchname command.
To display information useful to technical support
when reporting a problem
To display configured information about user
accounts
To display configured Fibre Channel tunnel
information
Configuration Commands
Command
config t
interface fcx/x
shutdown / no shutdown
copy running-config
startup-config
Description
This CLI sequence will disable/enable a port
on the switch and saves the configuration
config t
interface fcx/x
switchport description
emcsaninfo
copy running-config
startup-config
This command sequence put a decription for
a switch port(here putting description as
emcsaninfo) and saves the configuration
config t
interface fcx/x
switchport fcrxbbcredit
xx/default
copy running-config
startup-config
config t
interface mgmt0
ipaddress xx.xx.xx.xx
255.255.255.255
no shutdown
ip default-gateway
1.1.2.3
copy running-config
startup- config
config t
vsan database
no vsan XX
This will Assign a bbcredits to a switch port
and saves the configuration
This will Set ip address for the management
interface,set default gateway and save the
configuration
To delete a Vsan , cannot delete default vsan
This step will disable or enable a vsan XX
config t
interface vsan xx
shutdown / no shutdown
config t
interface fcx/x
switchport speed
1000/2000/4000/auto/aut
o max xxxx
config t
interface fc x/x
switchport rate-mode
dedicated/shared
config t
interface fc x/x
channel-group x/auto
This will used to set port speed
This will used for configuring rate mode of a
switch port
Steps to add a port to a port channel
Steps to manually set the port type on a
switch
config t
interface fc x/x
switchport mode e/f/fl/n
Steps to enable trunk protocol on a swith
(default)
config t
trunk protocol enable
Steps to enable/disable trunk on a port level
config t
interface fc x/x
switchport trunk mode
on/off/auto
config t
interface fc x/x
switchport trunk allowed
vsan x-x/x
switchport trunk allowed
vsan add x
Steps to configure an allowed list of vsans to
communicate through that port (TE PORT)
and allows to add a specific vsan to the
allowed list of vsans
Steps to forcefully reconfigure without
affecting traffic and force vsan to configure
with data traffic affected
config t
fcdomain restart vsan x
fcdomain restart
disruptive vsan x
Steps to create a new vsan (default)
config t
vsan database
vsan x
Steps to delete a vsan
config t
vsan database
no vsan x
config t
vsan database
vsan x
vsan x name abc
vsan x suspend
Steps to create a vsan ,then assign a name.
Steps to suspend a vsan and unsuspend it
no vsan x suspend
end
config t
vsan database
vsan x
vsan x interface fcx/x
config t
vsan database
vsan x
no vsan x interface fcx/x
config t
vsan database
vsan x
no vsan x interface fcx/x
Steps to create a vsan and add a port on
interface into a vsan
Steps to remove a port on an interface from a
vsan
Steps to remove a port on an interface from a
vsan
