Document Conventions - Cisco MDS 9000 Series Configuration Manual

Preface
This preface describes the audience, organization, and conventions of the Cisco MDS 9000 Family NX-OS
Fundamentals Configuration Guide. It also provides information on how to obtain related documentation.
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Audience
This guide is for experienced network administrators who are responsible for configuring and maintaining
the Cisco MDS 9000 Family of multilayer directors and fabric switches.

Document Conventions

As part of our constant endeavor to remodel our documents to meet our customers' requirements, we have
Note
modified the manner in which we document configuration tasks. As a result of this, you may find a
deviation in the style used to describe these tasks, with the newly included sections of the document
following the new format.
Command descriptions use the following conventions:
Convention
bold
Italic
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Audience, page xiii
Document Conventions, page xiii
Related Documentation, page xv
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request, page xvi
Description
Bold text indicates the commands and keywords that you enter literally
as shown.
Italic text indicates arguments for which the user supplies the values.
Square brackets enclose an optional element (keyword or argument).
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