Brocade Communications Systems 53-1000571-01 User Manual

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:

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

code

 text

Identifies CLI output
Identifies syntax examples

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

For definitions of SAN-specific terms, visit the Storage Networking Industry Association online 
dictionary at http://www.snia.org/education/dictionary.