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CLI Commands

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config

The config branch of the CLI command tree contains commands that

set parameter values on the switch or director. These values are not

temporary (session) values but are retained across power cycles.

The commands in the config branch can only be accessed by a user

logging in as administrator. CLI commands are activated on the

switch immediately except under certain conditions, which are noted

in the command description.

In general, the config naming commands (except for the config.zoning

commands) use the USASCII character set. All of the characters in

this 128-character set (the first 7-bit subset of the ISO-8859-1 Latin-1

character set) are valid. Any exceptions are noted in the specific

command descriptions.

config.alias

The alias command on the configuration branch enters the alias

configuration branch. All commands under this branch operate on a

WWN and its named association. The association is unique to the

entire fabric and the associations are shared across the fabric.

All operations on WWNs and their associations are performed on a

pending area. The user will have to explicitly activate changes for

them to be saved and distributed across a network.

The pending association, by default, is empty. The user has to

explicitly load the active association list using the

replacePending

command. Operations will be able to resume only after this has been

done. The user will have to activate the associations after successful

completion of the changes.

This setting is specific to the switch on which you run this command.

In a fabric, only aliases are shared fabric wide. The setWebState and

setCliState setting enables the usage of aliases instead of WWNs only

for that particular switch. This command enables the usage of alias or

WWN only in the user interfaces. Internally, aliases are replaced with

WWNs and all processing takes place using WWNs only.

If the use of alias is enabled in the CLI interface, then the following

commands will change such that the alias can be taken as a parameter

instead of WWN in the CLI interface.

• fabricbinding.addmember