What’s new in this document, Document conventions, Text formatting – Brocade VDX 6730 Hardware Reference Manual (Supporting VDX 6730-32 and VDX 6730-76) User Manual
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Brocade VDX 6730 Hardware Reference Manual
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What’s new in this document
The following information has been added:
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The LED patterns for the optical SFP ports have been updated.
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The USB device was added.
“Items included with the Brocade VDX 6730 switches.”
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The warning about the ip gateway-address was added.
“Setting the switch IP address.”
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Removed the Brocade-branded wording for direct-attach cables.
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Small adjustments were made to the physical specs for the switches.
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:
bold text
Identifies command names
Identifies the names of user-manipulated 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 command syntax examples
For readability, command names in the narrative portions of this guide are presented in mixed
lettercase: for example, switchShow. In actual examples, command lettercase is all lowercase.
Command syntax conventions
Command syntax in this manual follows these conventions:
command
Commands are printed in bold.
--
option, option
Command options are printed in bold.
-
argument, arg
Arguments.
[ ]
Optional element.
variable
Variables are printed in italics. In the help pages, values are underlined or
enclosed in angled brackets < >.