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Dell PowerConnect 55xx Systems User Guide
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GUI Terms
Each GUI page in the tree view is described in the following sections. A brief
introduction is provided along with steps specifying how to enter information
in the page. The following terms are used:
•
Enter
— Indicates that information may be entered in the field. It does
not imply that the field is mandatory.
•
Select
—Indicates that information may be selected from a drop-down list
or from radio buttons.
•
Displays
—Indicates that the field is display only.
CLI Commands
There are certain command entry conventions that apply to all commands.
The following table describes these conventions.
Table 7-5. Common GUI Elements
Telnet
Opens a Telnet window. This only works in the Explorer 6 and
Firefox browsers.
Button
Description
[ ]
In a command line, square brackets indicate an optional
entry..
{ }
In a command line, curly brackets indicate a selection of
compulsory parameters separated by the | character. One
option must be selected. For example:
flowcontrol
{
auto
|
on
|
off
} means that for the flowcontrol command
either auto, on, or off must be selected.
Italic Font
Indicates a parameter value.
Bold Italic Font
Indicates a parameter key word.
<button-name>
Any individual key on the keyboard. For example click
<
Enter
>.
Table 7-4. Common GUI Elements (Continued)
Button
Description