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Chapter 5 D Commands
S e n d d o c u m e n t a t i o n c o m m e n t s t o m d s f e e d b a c k - d o c @ c i s c o . c o m
device-alias mode enhanced
To configure device aliases to operate in enhanced mode, use the device-alias mode enhanced
command. To disable this feature, use the no form of the command.
Syntax Description This command has no arguments or keywords.
Defaults
Basic mode.
Command Modes
Configuration mode.
Command History Release
3.1(1)
Usage Guidelines When a device alias is configured in basic mode, which is the default mode, all the applications operate
like 3.0 switches. For example, when you attempt to configure the device aliases, immediately the device
alias are expanded to a PWWN. This operation continues until the mode is changed to enhanced.
Whena device alias is configured in enhanced mode, all the applications accept a device alias name in
its native format, instead of expanding the device alias to a PWWN, the device alias name is stored in
the configuration and distributed in its native device alias format.
To use enhanced mode, all switches in the fabric must be running in the Cisco SAN-OS Release 3.1(1)
or later, or NX-OS 4.1(1b) later.
Enhanced mode, or native device alias based configurations are not accepted in interop mode. VSANs.
Note
IVR zoneset activation will fail in interop mode VSANs if the corresponding zones have native device
alias-based members
Examples
The following example shows how to configure the device alias in enhanced mode:
switch# config terminal
switch(config)# device-alias mode enhanced
switch(config)#
Related Commands Command
device-alias commit
OL-18089-01, Cisco NX-OS Release 4.x
device-alias mode enhanced
no device-alias mode enhanced
Modification
This command was introduced.
Description
Commits changes to the active device alias database.
device-alias mode enhanced
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