SAN Cisco: Important FC zoning and Cisco SAN Switch helpful commands and concepts with examples

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............................................................................................................................................................................Helpful display/Show commands on Cisco SAN Platform.

show zone

Displays zone information for all VSANs.

show zone vsan 1

Displays zone information for a specific VSAN.

show zoneset vsan 1

Displays information for the configured zone set.

show zoneset vsan 2-3

Displays configured zone set information for a range of VSANs.

show zone name Zone1

Displays members of a zone.

show fcalias vsan 1

Displays fcalias configuration.

show zone member pwwn 21:00:00:20:37:9c:48:e5

Displays membership status.

show zone statistics

Displays zone statistics.

show zone statistics read-only-zoning

Displays read-only zoning statistics.

show zoneset active

Displays active zone sets.

show zoneset brief

Displays brief descriptions of zone sets.

show zone active

Displays active zones.

show zone status

Displays zone status.

show zone

Displays zone statistics.

show running

Displays the interface-based zones.

Here is a depiction of SAN Zoning.

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/i/000001-100000/75001-80000/79001-80000/79537.ps/_jcr_content/renditions/79537.jpg

##How to delete device-alias name from current zone/zoneset

#config t

#dev data

#no dev-alias name hostname_portA

#dev-alias commit

#exit

##How to confirm if specific wwpn is currently logged in to fabric

#show flogi | include xx:xx:xx:xx

## How to list all fabric logins on switch

#show flogi database

##Show all configuration

#show running-conifg

##Reboot individual Port

#config t

#int fc3/1

#shut

#noshut

#int fc3/1

#show int fc3/1

##Display all port details

#show interface brief

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