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This chapter describes how to perform basic management tasks on the Cisco NX-OS device.
This chapter includes the following sections:
This section provides information about basic device management.
You can change the device hostname displayed in the command prompt from the default (switch) to another character string. When you give the device a unique hostname, you can easily identify the device from the command-line interface (CLI) prompt.
The message-of-the-day (MOTD) banner displays before the user login prompt on the device. This message can contain any information that you want to display for users of the device.
If you do not synchronize your device with a valid outside timing mechanism, such as an NTP clock source, you can manually set the clock time when your device boots. For information about NTP, see the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS System Management Configuration Guide, Release 4.1.
You can configure the time zone and summer time (daylight saving time) setting for your device. These values offset the clock time from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). UTC is International Atomic Time (TAI) with leap seconds added periodically to compensate for the Earth's slowing rotation. UTC was formerly called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
You can display the active user session on your device. You can also send messages to the user sessions. For more information about managing user sessions and accounts, see the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Security Configuration Guide, Release 4.1.
Basic device management is local to the virtual device context (VDC). For more information on VDCs, see the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Virtual Device Context Configuration Guide, Release 4.1.
The following table shows the licensing requirements for this feature:
Product |
License Requirement |
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Cisco Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Licensing Guide, Release 4.1X-OS |
Basic device management requires no license. Any feature not included in a license package is bundled with the Cisco NX-OS system images and is provided at no extra charge to you. For a complete explanation of the Cisco NX-OS licensing scheme, see the . |
You can change the device hostname displayed in the command prompt from the default (switch) to another character string.
Command or Action | Purpose | |
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Step 1 | configure terminal Example: switch# configure terminal switch(config)# |
Enters global configuration mode. |
Step 2 | hostname name Example: switch(config)# hostname Engineering2 Engineering2(config)# |
Changes the device hostname. The name argument is alphanumeric, case sensitive, and has a length of 32 characters. The default is switch. |
Step 3 | switchname name Example: switch# switchname Engineering2 Engineering2(config)# |
Changes the device hostname. The default is switch. |
Step 4 | exit Example: Engineering2(config)# exit Engineering2# |
Exits global configuration mode. |
Step 5 | copy running-config startup-config Example: Engineering2# copy running-config startup-config |
(Optional) Copies the running configuration to the startup configuration. |
You can configure the MOTD to display before the login prompt on the terminal when a user logs in. The MOTD banner has the following characteristics:
Command or Action | Purpose | |||
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Step 1 | configure terminal Example: switch# configure terminal switch(config)# |
Enters global configuration mode. |
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Step 2 | banner motd delimiting-character message delimiting-character Example: switch(config)# banner motd #Welcome to the Switch# switch(config)# |
Configures the MOTD banner. Do not use the delimiting-character in the message text.
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Step 3 | exit Example: switch(config)# exit switch# |
Exits global configuration mode. |
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Step 4 | show banner motd Example: switch# show banner motd |
(Optional) Displays the configured MOTD banner. |
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Step 5 | copy running-config startup-config Example: switch# copy running-config startup-config |
(Optional) Copies the running configuration to the startup configuration. |
You can configure the time zone to offset the device clock time from UTC.
Command or Action | Purpose | |
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Step 1 | configure terminal Example: switch# configure terminal switch(config)# |
Enters global configuration mode. |
Step 2 | clock timezone zone-name offset-hours offset-minutes Example: switch(config)# clock timezone EST -5 0 |
Configures the time zone. The zone-name argument is a 3-character string for the time zone acronym (for example, PST or EST). The offset-hours argument is the offset from the UTC and the range is from –23 to 23 hours. The range for the offset-minutes argument is from 0 to 59 minutes. |
Step 3 | exit Example: switch(config)# exit switch# |
Exits global configuration mode. |
Step 4 | show clock Example: switch# show clock |
(Optional) Displays the time and time zone. |
Step 5 | copy running-config startup-config Example: switch# copy running-config startup-config |
(Optional) Copies the running configuration to the startup configuration. |
You can configure when summer time, or daylight saving time, is in effect for the device and the offset in minutes.
Command or Action | Purpose | |
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Step 1 | configure terminal Example: switch# configure terminal switch(config)# |
Enters global configuration mode. |
Step 2 | clock summer-time zone-name start-week start-day start-month start-time end-week end-day end-month end-time offset-minutes Example: switch(config)# clock summer-time PDT 1 Sunday March 02:00 1 Sunday November 02:00 60 |
Configures summer time or daylight saving time. The zone-name argument is a three character string for the time zone acronym (for example, PST and EST). The values for the start-day and end-day arguments are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The values for the start-month and end-month arguments are January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December. The value for the start-time and end-time arguments are in the format hh:mm. The range for the offset-minutes argument is from 0 to 1440 minutes. |
Step 3 | exit Example: switch(config)# exit switch# |
Exits global configuration mode. |
Step 4 | show clock detail Example: switch(config)# show clock detail |
(Optional) Displays the configured MOTD banner. |
Step 5 | copy running-config startup-config Example: switch# copy running-config startup-config |
(Optional) Copies the running configuration to the startup configuration. |
You can set the clock manually if your device cannot access a remote time source.
Configure the time zone.
Command or Action | Purpose | |
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Step 1 | clock set time day month year Example: switch# clock set 15:00:00 30 May 2008 Fri May 30 15:14:00 PDT 2008 |
Configures the device clock. The format for the time argument is hh:mm:ss. The range for the day argument is from 1 to 31. The values for the month argument are January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, and December. The range for the year argument is from 2000 to 2030. |
Step 2 | show clock Example: switch(config)# show clock |
(Optional) Displays the current clock value. |
You can display information about users logged into the device and send messages to those users.
You can display information about the user session on the device.
Command or Action | Purpose | |
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Step 1 | show users Example: switch# show users |
Displays the user sessions. |
You can send a message to active users currently using the device CLI.
Command or Action | Purpose | |
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Step 1 | show users Example: switch# show users |
(Optional) Displays the active user sessions. |
Step 2 | send [session line] message-text Example: switch# send Reloading the device is 10 minutes! |
Sends a message to all active users or to a specific user. The message can be up to 80 alphanumeric characters and is case sensitive. |
To verify the device configuration, perform one of the following tasks:
Command |
Purpose |
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show running-config |
Displays the running configuration. |
show startup-config |
Displays the startup configuration. |
For detailed information about the fields in the output from these commands, see the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Fundamentals Command Reference, Release 4.1.
Parameters |
Default |
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MOTD banner text |
User Access Verification |
Clock time zone |
UTC |
You can find additional information related to basic device management.
Related Topic |
Document Title |
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Licensing |
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Command reference |
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Fundamentals Command Reference, Release 4.1 |
Feature Name |
Releases |
Feature Information |
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Device management |
4.0(1) |
This feature was introduced. |