NX-OS Version and Other Reload Facts
To finish this first chapter about how Cisco NX-OS works, with the NX-OS CLI, this last topic looks at the switch show version command.
When a switch loads the NX-OS, it must do many tasks. The NX-OS software itself must be loaded into RAM. The NX-OS must become aware of the hardware available (for example, all the different interfaces on the switch). After the software is loaded, the NX-OS keeps track of some statistics related to the current operation of the switch, like the amount of time since the NX-OS was last loaded and the reason why the NX-OS was most recently loaded.
The show version command lists these facts, plus many others. As you might guess from the command itself, the show version command ...
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