support.dell.com PowerVault 51F Commands 4-23nsShowThe nsShow command displays local name server information, which includes infor-mation about devices connected to this switch, and cached information about devicesconnected to other switches in the fabric.The message There is no entry in the Local Name Server is displayed ifthere is no information on this switch, but there still may be devices connected toother switches in the fabric. The command nsAllShow shows information from allswitches. Otherwise, text similar to the following example appears informing the userthe number of name service entries that have been created with the title:The Local Name Server has n entriesType Pid COS PortName NodeName TTL(sec)Each subsequent line of output shows the value of each field as described inTable 4-12. There may be additional lines if the device has registered any of the follow-ing information (the switch will automatically register SCSI Inquiry data for FCP targetdevices): FC4s supported, IP address, IPA, port and node symbolic names.There are six major columns of information for each entry.NOTE: Only local entries are displayed.passwdThe passwd command is used to set user names and passwords.The command syntax is passwd [ "user name" ].Table 4-12. nsShow FieldsField DescriptionType The port type with one of the following values:N indicating that this is an N_PortNL indicating that is an NL_PortPid The address ID of the port in hexadecimal.COS The Class of Service supported by the port.PortName The Port World_wide_Name.NodeName The Node World_wide_Name associated with the port.TTL The 'time-to-live' value of the entry; this is typically setto not-applicable (na) for a local entry. Occasionally, anentry might be a cached version of a remote port (thatis, not directly connect to this switch). In that case, thevalue will be the number of seconds before the cachedentry expires and gets deleted from the local database.Note also that a cached entry would have an '*' at thebeginning.
