Document conventions, Text formatting, Notes, cautions, and danger notices – Brocade Multi-Service IronWare Software Defined Networking (SDN) Configuration Guide (Supporting R05.6.00) User Manual

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Document conventions

This section describes text formatting conventions and important notice formats used in this
document.

Text formatting

The narrative-text formatting conventions that are used are as follows:

For readability, command names in the narrative portions of this guide are presented in bold: for
example, show version.

Notes, cautions, and danger notices

The following notices and statements are used in this manual. They are listed below in 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.

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.

bold text

Identifies command names

Identifies the names of user-manipulated GUI elements

Identifies keywords

Identifies text to enter at the GUI or CLI

italic text

Provides emphasis

Identifies variables

Identifies document titles

code

text

Identifies CLI output

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