ZyXEL Communications 4.04 User Manual

 Document Conventions

ZyWALL (ZyNOS) CLI Reference Guide

Warnings and notes are indicated as follows in this guide.

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Warnings tell you about things that could harm you or your device. See your 
User’s Guide for product specific warnings.

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Notes tell you other important information (for example, other things you may 
need to configure or helpful tips) or recommendations.

This manual follows these general conventions:

• ZyWALLs may also be referred to as the “device”, the “ZyXEL device”, the “system” or 

the “product” in this guide. 

• Units of measurement may denote the “metric” value or the “scientific” value. For 

example, “k” for kilo may denote “1000” or “1024”, “M” for mega may denote “1000000” 
or “1048576” and so on.

Command descriptions follow these conventions:

• Commands are in 

courier new font

.

• Required input values are in angle brackets <>; for example, 

ping

 

<

>

 

means that you must specify an IP address for this command.

• Optional fields are in square brackets []; for instance show logins [name], the name 

field is optional.

The following is an example of a required field within an optional field: snmp-server 
[contact <system contact>]

, the contact field is optional. However, if you 

use contact, then you must provide the system contact information. 

• The | (bar) symbol means “or”.

• italic terms represent user-defined input values; for example, in sys datetime 

date [year month date]

, year month date can be replaced by the actual 

year month and date that you want to set, for example, 2007 08 15.

• A key stroke is denoted by square brackets and uppercase text, for example, [ENTER] 

means the “Enter” or “Return” key on your keyboard.

• <cr> means press the [ENTER] key.

• An arrow (-->) indicates that this line is a continuation of the previous line.