Brocade MLX Series and NetIron XMR Hardware Installation Guide
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Document conventions
Document conventions
This section describes text formatting conventions and important notice formats used in this
document.
Text formatting
The narrative-text formatting conventions that are used are as follows:
.
Command syntax conventions
Command syntax in this manual follows these conventions:
Command examples
This document describes how to perform simple upgrade and configuration tasks using the
command line interface (CLI), but does not describe the commands in detail. For complete
descriptions of commands for Brocade MLX Series and Brocade NetIron XMR routers, see the
Brocade MLX Series and Brocade NetIron Family Configuration Guide
.
Notes, cautions, and danger notices
The following notices and danger statements are used in this manual. They are listed below in
order of increasing severity of potential hazards.
NOTE
A note provides a tip, guidance, or advice, emphasizes important information, or provides a
reference to related information.
bold text
Identifies command names
Identifies the names of user-manipulated GUI elements
Identifies keywords
Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI
italic
text
Provides emphasis
Identifies variables
Identifies document titles
code
text
Identifies CLI output
command and
parameters
Commands and parameters are printed in bold.
[ ]
Optional parameter.
<
variable
>
Variables are printed in italics enclosed in angled brackets < >.
...
Repeat the previous element, for example “member [;member...]”
|
Choose from one of the parameters.
