Document Conventions - Acopia Adaptive Resource Switch Cli Maintenance Manual

Introduction

Document Conventions

Document Conventions
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The chapters in this manual contain maintenance instructions, such as
1. backing up and restoring client files through the ARX,
2. backing up configuration data with
3. performing software upgrades,
4. maintaining the metadata used by managed volumes,
5. reading the syslog and working with other basic-maintenance facilities,
6. using some network-troubleshooting tools (such as ping),
7. taking down and repairing managed volumes, and
8. powering down the switch for a planned outage.
This manual uses the following conventions:
this font represents screen input and output;
• bold text represents input, and
• italic text appears for variable input or output.
is used for command-syntax definitions, which use the same rules for bold
this font
and italic. Command-syntax definitions also use the following symbols:
•
[optional-argument]
•
choice1 | choice2
•
{choice1 | choice2 | choice3}
• [
choice1 | choice2]*
as many as desired (for example, "
• {
choice1 | choice2}+
show running-config
- square brackets ([ ]) surround optional arguments;
- the vertical bar ( | ) separates argument choices;
- curly braces ({ }) surround a required choice;
- an asterisk (*) means that you can choose none of them, or
choice1 choice2
- a plus sign (+) means that you must choose one or more.
and similar commands,
" chooses both);
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