Notes, Cautions, And Warnings - Brocade Communications Systems 5100 Hardware Reference Manual

Notes, cautions, and warnings

Convention
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Notes, cautions, and warnings
Notes, cautions, and warning statements may be used in this document. They are listed in the order of
increasing severity of potential hazards.
NOTE
A note provides a tip, guidance, or advice, emphasizes important information, or provides a reference
to related information.
ATTENTION
An Attention statement indicates potential damage to hardware or data.
CAUTION
A Caution statement alerts you to situations that can be potentially hazardous to you or cause
damage to hardware, firmware, software, or data.
DANGER
A Danger statement indicates conditions or situations that can be potentially lethal or
extremely hazardous to you. Safety labels are also attached directly to products to warn of
these conditions or situations.
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Description
In Fibre Channel products, a fixed value provided as input to a command
option is printed in plain text, for example, --show WWN.
Syntax components displayed within square brackets are optional.
Default responses to system prompts are enclosed in square brackets.
A choice of required parameters is enclosed in curly brackets separated by
vertical bars. You must select one of the options.
In Fibre Channel products, square brackets may be used instead for this
purpose.
A vertical bar separates mutually exclusive elements.
Nonprinting characters, for example, passwords, are enclosed in angle
brackets.
Repeat the previous element, for example, member
Indicates a "soft" line break in command examples. If a backslash separates
two lines of a command input, enter the entire command at the prompt without
the backslash.
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