Displays the currently active Telnet and console sessions communicating with the switch.
| detail | Specifies more detailed session information. |
| sessID | Specifies a session ID number. |
| history | Displays a list of all sessions. |
N/A.
The show session command displays the username and IP address of the incoming Telnet session, whether a console session is currently active, and the login time. Each session is numbered.
Beginning with ExtremeXOS 11.2, the switch accepts IPv6 connections. If the incoming session is from an IPv6 address, the show session output indicates IPv6.
detail—The output for all current sessions is displayed in a list format.
sessID—The output for the specified session is displayed in a list format.
history—Displays a list of current and previous sessions, including the user, type of session, location, and start and end time of the session.
| Field | Definition |
|---|---|
|
# |
Indicates session number. |
|
Login Time |
Indicates login time of session. |
|
User |
Indicates the user logged in for each session. |
|
Type |
Indicates the type of session, for example: console, Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS. |
|
Auth |
Indicates how the user is logged in (local, RADIUS, TACACS+, sshKey, x509v3). |
|
CLI Auth |
Indicates the type of authentication (RADIUS and TACACS) if enabled. |
|
Location |
Indicates the location (IP address) from which the user logged in. The output also indicates if the location is an IPv6 address. |
The following command displays the active sessions on the switch:
show session
The following is sample output from this command:
CLI # Login Time User Type Auth Auth Location ================================================================================ 1 Thu Apr 28 20:16:56 2005 admin console local dis serial *2 Thu Apr 28 23:36:20 2005 admin ssh2 local dis 3001::20d:88ff:fec5:ad40 3 Fri Apr 29 11:14:27 2005 admin telnet local dis 10.255.44.55
The following command displays a list of current and previous sessions on the switch:
show session history
The following is sample output from this command:
Session History: admin console serial Mon Jun 21 09:19:00 2004 Mon Jun 21 10:00:16 2004 admin console serial Tue Jun 22 07:28: 11 2004 Tue Jun 22 11:46:48 2004 admin console serial Wed Jun 23 10:05:44 2004 Wed Jun 23 14:11:47 2004 admin console serial Thu Jun 24 07:07:25 2004 Thu Jun 24 07:08:55 2004 admin console serial Thu Jun 24 13:30:07 2004 Active
The following displays X509v3 Authentication information (lines 4 and 20):
# show session
CLI
# Login Time User Type Auth Auth Location
=======================================================================================
*1 Wed Dec 15 14:53:43 2021 vasanth console RADIUS dis serial
4 Wed Dec 15 14:57:28 2021 exos- .. ssh2 x509v3-local dis 10.120.89.84
* (pacman debug) 460-11_switch.9 #
* (pacman debug) 460-11_switch.9 # show session detail
Session Detail:
ID :1
Start Time :Wed Dec 15 14:53:43 2021
User Name :vasanth
Type :console
Authentication :RADIUS
Cli Authentication :disabled
Location :serial
Node :local
ID :4
Start Time :Wed Dec 15 14:57:28 2021
User Name :exos-admin
Type :ssh2
Authentication :x509v3-local
Cli Authentication :disabled
Location :10.120.89.84
Node :local
This command was first available in ExtremeXOS 10.1.
Support for IPv6 was added in ExtremeXOS 11.2.
This command is available on ExtremeSwitching X435, X440-G2, X450-G2, X460-G2, X465, X590, X620, and X695 series switches.