With the introduction of the NX-OS like CLI Cisco also added the option to run commands on the switches directly from your apic. It’s now even easier to get some infos from one or multiple switches in your fabric.
Show switchname on a single fabric switch
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apic1# fabric leaf01 show switchname
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You can also run commands on multiple devices
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apic1# fabric leaf01, leaf02 show switchname
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The list of possible commands is pretty long, just to give an idea
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bfd BFD commands
bgp Display BGP status and configuration
cdp Show Cisco Discovery Protocol information
clock Display current Date
coop Show information about coop
copp Control Plane Policing (CoPP) information
copyright Copyright information
cores Show all core dumps for the current vdc
dhcp Show DHCP
diagnostic Diagnostic commands
dpp Data Plane Policing (DPP) information
eigrp Display EIGRP status and configuration
endpoint End point
environment Environment Information
fc2 Show fc2 information
fcoe Show FCOE paramaters
fex Show FEX information
forwarding Display mfdm information
hardware Show hardware information
hostname Hostname
hsrp HSRP information
interface Show interface status and information
inventory system inventory information
ip Display IP information
ipmgr Show information about ipmgr
ipv6 Show IPv6 information
isis Display IS-IS status and configuration
istack Show istack information
lacp LACP protocol
lldp Show information about lldp
locator-led Blink locator led on device
logging logging information
mac Mac addr information
mcp Show information about mcp
mfdm Show MFDM information
module Module
monitor Show SPAN information
npv Show Npv information
ntp Show NTP information
oam Show information about oam
ospfv3 Display OSPFv3 status and configuration
port-channel Show port-channel information
porttrack Port Tracking
processes Show processes
radius-server Radius-server
redundancy Show system redundancy status
resource Show resource configuration for VDC
route-map Route-map information
routing Display routing information
san-port-channel Show san-port-channel information
service Display service information
snmp Display SNMP information
sprom show SPROM contents
stats_manager Show information about stats_manager
switchname Show the system's hostname
system System-related commands
tacacs-server Tacacs-server
tunnel Show information about Tunnel
users Show users logged onto the system and their sessions
vdc Show information about vdc_mgr
version Show running firmware version and basic system information
vlan VLAN status
vpc Virtual Port Channel configuration
vrf Display VRF information
vsan Show vsan information
zoning-filter Display Zoning-Filter information
zoning-rule Display Zoning-Rule information
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This can be a really nice way to collect some quick info from different nodes
in a ACI fabric.