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Preface
Audience
This guide is for the networking professional managing the IE 3000 switch, hereafter referred to as the
switch. Before using this guide, you should have experience working with the Cisco IOS software and
be familiar with the concepts and terminology of Ethernet and local area networking.
Purpose
This guide provides the information that you need to configure Cisco IOS software features on your
switch. This guide provides procedures for using the commands that have been created or changed for
use with the switch. It does not provide detailed information about these commands. For detailed
information about these commands, see the IE 3000 Switch Command Reference for this release. For
information about the standard Cisco IOS Release 12.2 commands, see the Cisco IOS documentation set
available from the Cisco.com home page at Documentation > Cisco IOS Software.
This guide does not provide detailed information on the graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for the
embedded device manager or for Cisco Network Assistant (hereafter referred to as Network Assistant)
that you can use to manage the switch. However, the concepts in this guide are applicable to the GUI
user. For information about the device manager, see the switch online help. For information about
Network Assistant, see Getting Started with Cisco Network Assistant, available on Cisco.com.
This guide does not describe system messages you might encounter or how to install your switch. For
more information, see the IE 3000 Switch System Message Guide for this release and the IE 3000 Switch
Hardware Installation Guide.
For documentation updates, see the release notes for this release.
Conventions
This publication uses these conventions to convey instructions and information:
Command descriptions use these conventions:
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Commands and keywords are in boldface text.
Arguments for which you supply values are in italic.
Square brackets ([ ]) mean optional elements.
Braces ({ }) group required choices, and vertical bars ( | ) separate the alternative elements.
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