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Best Practice User Guide for the Catalyst 3850 and Catalyst 3650 Switch Series
Preface
Audience
This document is written for managing the Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series Switches and the Cisco 3650
Series switches and switch stacks in their network. A basic understanding of Ethernet networking is
expected. Cisco Certified Network Associate level (CCNA) knowledge is helpful, but not required.
Conventions
This document uses the following conventions:
Note
Means
reader take note
. Notes contain helpful suggestions or references to material that is not covered
in the manual.
Convention
Indication
italic
blue font
Example configuration values that are replaced with reader values.
bold
font
Commands and keywords and user-entered CLI appear in
bold
font.
italic
font
Document titles, new or emphasized terms, and arguments for which you supply values are in
italic
font.
[ ]
•
Default responses to system prompts are in square brackets.
•
Elements in square brackets are optional.
{x | y | z}
Required alternative keywords are grouped in braces and separated by vertical bars.
[x | y | z]
Optional alternative keywords are grouped in brackets and separated by vertical bars.
string
A nonquoted set of characters. Do not use quotation marks around the string, or the string will include
the quotation marks.
courier
font
Terminal sessions and information the system displays appear in
courier
font.
< >
Nonprinting characters such as passwords are in angle brackets.
!, #
An exclamation point (!) or a pound sign (#) at the beginning of a line of code indicates a comment line.
