Notes, cautions, and warnings, Key terms – Brocade Communications Systems Brocade Network OS 2.1 User Manual

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Network OS Documentation Update

vii

53-1002606-06

Notes, cautions, and warnings

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.

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.

Key terms

For definitions specific to Brocade and Fibre Channel, see the technical glossaries on MyBrocade.
See

“Brocade resources”

on page viii for instructions on accessing MyBrocade.

For definitions of SAN-specific terms, visit the Storage Networking Industry Association online
dictionary at:

http://www.snia.org/education/dictionary

...

Repeat the previous element, for example “member[;member...]”

value

Fixed values following arguments are printed in plain font. For example,

--

show WWN

|

Boolean. Elements are exclusive. Example:

--

show

-

mode egress | ingress

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