This is a cheat list of the most used operational and troubleshooting Ciena Commands used in SAOS OS cli. We are covering Ciena 3900 series (3902, 3916, 3920, 3930, 3940, 3960, etc.), Ciena 4200 series, Ciena 6500 and Ciena 8700 series.
Command | Funcionality |
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mac show | It shows the mac table in your PC |
port show | It shows generic physical parameters of the Ciena ports |
port show port 3 | It shows specific physical parameters of port 3 |
port show status | It shows generic physical parameters of the Ciena ports, including description |
port show statistics | It shows statistics for each port |
port xcvr show serial | It shows the vendor name & part number & serial number of the optics inserted in the device |
port xcvr show supported | It shows the supportes tranceivers |
port xcvr show port 2 | It shows power transmitted and received in port 2 |
user show | It shows the user account table |
arp show | It shows the ARP table |
arp show interface <instance> | It shows the ARP table for a specific instance |
chassis show | It shows chassis generic capabilities |
chassis power show | It shows power supply modules status |
chassis device-id show | It shows chassis IDs, serial number, etc. |
chassis fan-tray show | It shows fans status and speeds |
chassis dying-gasp show | It shows dying-gasp status |
chassis show mac-address | It shows chassis mac-addresses |
icl show | It shows Inter Chassis Link table |
configuration show | It shows full config |
configuration show brief | It shows any config appart from the default config |
configuration show mgr <Process> | It shows the specific bits of configuration related to a certain item |
configuration show differences-from-saved | It shows the differences between the current config and the saved config |
ntp show | It shows NTP client a nd server status |
alarm show | It shows active alarms table |
alarm show history | It shows alarm history |
cli show full | It shows the whole set of commands |
software show | It shows the a summary of the software package |
software license show | It show the licenses intalled in the device |
system show time | It shows time and date |
system show date | It shows date |
system show uptime | It shows the system uptime |
command-log show | It shows the commadns typed in the CLI |
ndp show | It shows IPv6 neighbors |
lldp show neighbors | It shows LLDP neighbors |
dhcp client show | It shows DHCP client status and DHCP Options State |
user show | It shows the user account table |
usb-flash show | It shows if a USB is connected or not |
dot1x show | It shows dot1x global status plus dot1x port state |