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Preface
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EtherWAN Managed Switch Users Guide
Document Conventions
This guide uses the following conventions to draw your attention to certain information.
Safety and Warnings
This guide uses the following symbols to draw your attention to certain information.
Symbol Meaning Description
Note Notes emphasize or supplement important points of the main text.
Tip Tips provide helpful information, guidelines, or suggestions for performing tasks more
effectively.
Warning Warnings indicate that failure to take a specified action could result in damage to the
device, or could result in serious bodily injury.
Electric Shock Hazard This symbol warns users of electric shock hazard. Failure to take appropriate
precautions such as not opening or touching hazardous areas of the equipment could
result in injury or death.
Typographic Conventions
This guide also uses the following typographic conventions.
Convention Description
Bold Indicates text on a window, other than the window title, including menus, menu options, buttons, fields, and labels.
Italic Indicates a variable, which is a placeholder for actual text provided by the user or system. Angled brackets (< >)
are also used to indicate variables.
screen/code
Indicates text that is displayed on screen or entered by the user.
< > angled
brackets
Indicates a variable, which is a placeholder for actual text provided by the user or system. Italic font is also used to
indicate variables.
[ ] square
brackets
Indicates optional values.
{ } braces Indicates required or expected values.
| vertical bar Indicates that you have a choice between two or more options or arguments.