Intended Readers; Typographical Conventions; Notes And Cautions; Safety Instructions - D-Link DGS-3000 series Hardware Installation Manual

Intended Readers

Intended Readers

Typographical Conventions

Notes and Cautions

Safety Instructions

General Precautions for Rack-Mountable Products
Protecting Against Electrostatic Discharge
The DGS-3000 Series Hardware Installation Guide contains information about the installation, maintenance and
technical information of switches in this series. This manual is intended for network administrators familiar with
network management concepts and terminology.
For all practical reasons all the switches in this series will simply be referred to as the Switch throughout this manual.
All example screenshots are taken from the DGS-3000-28XMP switch.
Typographical Conventions
Convention
Bold Font
Italics
Courier New Font
Notes and Cautions
A NOTE indicates important information that helps make better use of the device.
A CAUTION indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death.
Safety Instructions
Use the following safety guidelines to ensure your own personal safety and to help protect your system from potential
damage. Throughout this safety section, the caution icon (
reviewed and followed.

Safety Precautions

To reduce the risk of bodily injury, electrical shock, fire, and damage to the equipment observe the following
precautions:
DGS-3000 Series Gigabit Ethernet Switch Hardware Installation Guide
Description
Indicates a button, a toolbar icon, menu, or menu item. For example: Open the
File menu and choose Cancel. Used for emphasis. May also indicate system
messages or prompts appearing on screen. For example: You have mail.
Indicates a window name or a field. Also can indicate a variables or parameter
that is replaced with an appropriate word or string. For example: type filename
means that the actual filename should be typed instead of the word shown in
italic.
Indicates commands and responses to prompts that must be typed exactly as
printed in the manual.
) is used to indicate precautions that need to be
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