Show Inventory - Cisco Catalyst 2950 Command Reference Manual

Chapter 2 Catalyst 2950 and 2955 Cisco IOS Commands

show inventory

Use the show inventory user EXEC command to display product identification (PID) information for
the hardware.
Syntax Description entity-name
raw
| begin
| exclude
| include
expression
Command Modes User EXEC
Command History Release
12.1(22)EA5
Usage Guidelines The command is case sensitive. With no arguments, the show inventory command produces a compact
dump of all identifiable entities that have a product identifier. The compact dump displays the entity
location (slot identity), entity description, and the unique device identifier (UDI) (PID, VID, and SN) of
that entity.
If there is no PID, no output appears when you enter the show inventory command.
Note
Expressions are case sensitive. For example, if you enter | exclude output, the lines that contain output
are not displayed, but the lines that contain Output are displayed.
Examples
This is example output from the show inventory command:
Switch> show inventory
NAME: "sw-2-9-calg", DESCR: "Cisco Catalyst c2950 switch with 24 10/100 BaseTX ports and 2
GBIC (Gigabit Interface Converter) slots"
PID: WS-C2950G-24-EI
0L-10102-01
show inventory [entity-name | raw] [ | {begin | exclude | include} expression]
(Optional) Display the specified entity. For example, enter the interface
(such as gigabitethernet1/0/1) into which a small form-factor pluggable
(SFP) module is installed.
(Optional) Display every entity in the device.
(Optional) Display begins with the line that matches the expression.
(Optional) Display excludes lines that match the expression.
(Optional) Display includes lines that match the specified expression.
Expression in the output to use as a reference point.
Modification
This command was introduced.
, VID: A0 , SN: FHK0603Y088
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