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Document conventions

This section describes text formatting conventions and important notices formats.
Text formatting
The narrative-text formatting conventions that are used in this document are as follows:
For readability, command names in the narrative portions of this guide are presented in mixed
letter case: for example, switchShow. In actual examples, command letter case is often all
lowercase. Otherwise, this manual specifically notes those cases in which a command is case
sensitive.
Notes, attention, caution, and danger
The following notices appear in this document.
NOTE
A note provides a tip, emphasizes important information, or provides a reference to related
information.
ATTENTION
An attention alerts you to potential damage to hardware, firmware, software or data.
CAUTION
A caution alerts you to potential injury to personnel.
DANGER
A danger alerts you to potential lethal injury to personnel.
For definitions of SAN-specific terms, visit the Storage Networking Industry Association online
dictionary at http://www.snia.org/education/dictionary.
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bold text Identifies command names
Identifies GUI elements
Identifies keywords and operands
Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI
italic text Provides emphasis
Identifies variables
Identifies paths and Internet addresses
Identifies document titles
text Identifies CLI output
code
Identifies syntax examples
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