Cisco NX-OS
NX-OS is a network operating system for the Nexus-series Ethernet switches and MDS-series Fibre Channel storage area network switches made by Cisco Systems. It evolved from the Cisco operating system SAN-OS, originally developed for its MDS switches.
It is based on Wind River Linux and is inter-operable with other Cisco operating systems. The command-line interface of NX-OS is similar to that of Cisco IOS.
Recent NX-OS has both Cisco-style CLI and Bash shell available. On NX-OS 7.0I3, the output from uname
with the -a
command line argument might look like the text below:
$ uname -a
Linux version 3.4.91-WR5.0.1.13_standard+ #1 SMP Tue Feb 6 12:43:13 PST 2018
Core features
4.1, 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.0, 9.2