Cisco Nexus Snapshot

[cypherscuall]

The snapshot feature looks like a very interesting and useful feature to use but I'm having problems in two different boxes with different NX-OS versions, the error is basically the exact same error:

I have tried in nxos.7.0.3.I6.1 and nxos.7.0.3.I2.2d. Any idea why this problem?

[Andrea Testino · Accepted solution]

Hi there,

The CLI syntax to create a snapshot is the following:

9396-VTEP-RTP# which | i i snapshot.create
(5605) snapshot create <snapshot-name> <snapshot-description> 

In your case, you are missing the "description" and therefore it is an incomplete command. See example below:

Without description:

9396-VTEP-RTP# snapshot create before_maintenance
                ^
% Invalid command at '^' marker.

Adding the description:

9396-VTEP-RTP# snapshot create Forum before_maintenance
Executing 'show interface'... Done
Executing 'show ip route summary vrf all'... Done
Executing 'show ipv6 route summary vrf all'... Done
Feature 'bgp' not enabled, skipping...
Executing 'show ip eigrp topology summary'... Done
Executing 'show ipv6 eigrp topology summary'... Done
Feature 'vpc' not enabled, skipping...
Executing 'show ip ospf vrf all'... Done
Feature 'ospfv3' not enabled, skipping...
Feature 'isis' not enabled, skipping...
Feature 'rip' not enabled, skipping...
No user sections for snapshot
Snapshot 'Forum' created

Hope that helps!

- Andrea

[cypherscuall]

wow, I did not see that there was a comment after the name. 

@Andrea Testino, thank you so much for responding to my question.