Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Fundamentals Command Reference
New and Changed Information

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New and Changed Information


New and Changed Information


This chapter provides release-specific information for each new and changed feature in the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Fundamentals Command Reference.

To check for additional information about Cisco NX-OS Release 6.x, see the Cisco NX-OS Release Notes available at the following Cisco website:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9402/prod_release_notes_list.html

summarizes the new and changed features for the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Fundamentals Command Reference, and tells you where they are documented.

Table 1 New and Changed Information for Release 6.x 

Feature
Change Description
Changed in Release
Where Documented

Rolling back configuration

You can copy an ASCII version of the configuration to the startup-configuration when reloading the entire NX-OS device.

6.2(2)

reload ascii

Python API

You can invoke the Python Interpreter in interactive mode from the CLI.

6.2(2)

python

source

Changed the command example.

6.2(2)

source

POAP

This command was introduced.

6.1(2)

copy scheduled-config

source

This command was introduced.

6.1(2)

source

pong service

Changed the command output.

6.1(1)

pong

Clear inactive configurations: ACL, QoS

You can delete the inactive ACL and QoS configuration from the Cisco NX-OS device

5.2(1)

clear inactive-config acl
clear inactive-config acl qos
clear inactive-config qos

Pong service

You can monitor the delay between two switches or two ports in a network with the latency metrics provided by the Pong service.

5.2(1)

feature pong
pong

Clock manager

You can set the protocol for the clock on a virtual device context.

5.2(1)

clock protocol

Licensing

You can view the license information of the packages that are available for the features on a Cisco NX-OS device.

5.2(1)

show license feature package mapping

Concurrent line cards upgrade

You can upgrade up to three line cards concurrently.

5.2(1)

install all parallel

feature-set

Introduced a new high-level functionality, feature set, which performs a specific set of functions.

5.1(1)

allow feature-set
feature-set
install feature-set
show feature-set

Transferring files securely

You can transfer configuration and image files to or from Cisco devices.

5.0(2)

sscp

Installation failure log

You can clear the installation failure log on the standby supervisor module.

4.2(1)

clear install all failed-standby

Command syntax

You can display the syntax of available commands for the command mode.

4.2(1)

show cli syntax

Running configuration

You can exclude the configuration information for features when you display the running configuration.

4.2(1)

show running-config

Startup configuration

You can exclude the configuration information for features when you display the startup configuration.

4.2(1)

show startup-config

I/O module commands

You can send commands to an I/O module from the supervisor module session.

4.2(1)

slot

tar files

You can create and manage tar files.

4.2(1)

tar append
tar create
tar extract
tar list

Command aliases

You can create aliases only for your user account.

4.2(1)

terminal alias

Terminal display colors

You can configure the colors of the information on the terminal session.

4.2(1)

terminal color

Command confirmation prompts

You can enable or disable the display of command confirmation prompts.

4.2(1)

terminal dont-ask

Command edit mode

You can set the command edit mode to emacs or vi.

4.2(1)

terminal edit-mode vi

Command history

You can exclude EXEC commands when you display the command history from a configuration mode.

4.2(1)

terminal history no-exec-in-config

Command logging

You can enable or disable logging of all command in the accounting log.

4.2(1)

terminal log-all

Output redirection format

You can set the format of show command output to either ASCII or zipped.

4.2(1)

terminal redirection-mode

Licensing

You can specify the name of the file when you update a Cisco NX-OS software license.

4.2(1)

update license

Modem connections

You can bring up or restart a modem connection.

4.1(2)

modem connect line

modem restart line

Command mode context

You can save and restore a command mode context.

4.1(2)

pop

push

Displaying version information

You can display build information for the system and kickstart images running on your device.

4.1(2)

show version

Echoing text to command-line prompt

Changed the -e to backslash-interpret in the echo command.

4.0(2)

echo