About This Document; Audience; Supported Hardware And Software; Document Conventions - Brocade Communications Systems FWS648G-POE Hardware Installation Manual

About This Document

Audience

This document is designed for system administrators with a working knowledge of Layer 2 and
Layer 3 switching and routing.
If you are using a Brocade Layer 3 Switch, you should be familiar with the following protocols if
applicable to your network – IP, RIP, OSPF, BGP, ISIS, IGMP, PIM, and VRRP.

Supported hardware and software

This guide supports FastIron WS devices running software release 07.2.00.

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:
bold text
italic text
code
For readability, command names in the narrative portions of this guide are presented in bold: for
example, show version.

Command syntax conventions

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Command syntax in this manual follows these conventions:
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Identifies command names
Identifies the names of user-manipulated GUI elements
Identifies keywords
Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI
Provides emphasis
Identifies variables
Identifies document titles
text Identifies CLI output
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