Text Conventions - Nortel SREM User Manual

10 Preface

Text conventions

This guide uses the following text conventions:
angle brackets (< >)
bold body text
bold Courier
text
braces ({})
brackets ([ ])
ellipsis points (. . . )
Installing and Using Security and Routing Element Manager (SREM)
Copyright © 2007, Nortel Networks
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Nortel Secure Network Access Switch Software Release 1.6.1
NN47230-301 02.01 Standard
1.6.1 16 July 2007
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Enter text based on the description inside the brackets.
Do not type the brackets when entering the command.
Example: If the command syntax is
ping <ip_address>, you enter
ping 192.32.10.12
Objects such as window names, dialog box names,
and icons, as well as user interface objects such as
buttons, tabs, and menu items.
Command names, options, and text that you must
enter.
Example: Use the dinfo command.
Example: Enter show ip {alerts|routes}.
Required elements in syntax descriptions where there
is more than one option. You must choose only one
of the options. Do not type the braces when entering
the command.
Example: If the command syntax is
show ip {alerts|routes}, you must enter either
show ip alerts or show ip routes, but not
both.
Optional elements in syntax descriptions. Do not type
the brackets when entering the command.
Example: If the command syntax is
show ip interfaces [-alerts], you can enter
either show ip interfaces or
show ip interfaces -alerts.
Repeat the last element of the command as needed.
Example: If the command syntax is
ethernet/2/1 [<parameter> <value>]... ,
you enter ethernet/2/1 and as many
parameter-value pairs as needed.