Notes, cautions, and warnings, Key terms, Nesting square brackets and curly braces – Brocade Network Advisor REST API Guide (Supporting Network Advisor 12.3.0) User Manual
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Nesting square brackets and curly braces
When reading a command entry, optional keywords are surrounded by square brackets and
mandatory keywords are surrounded by curly braces. Refer to
page x for complete details.
In some cases, these brackets can be nested. In the following example, rbridge-id is optional as
denoted by the square brackets, but if you use it, then you must follow it with either a specific
rbridge-id or the word “all.”
command [rbridge-id {rbridge-id | all}]
However, square brackets can appear within curly braces, showing that while a keyword is
mandatory, supporting operands may be optional, as shown in the following example:
command {security [active] [standby] [disabled]}
command {security [active | standby | disabled]
}
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.
Refer to
on page xii for instructions on accessing MyBrocade.
For definitions of SAN-specific terms, visit the Storage Networking Industry Association online
dictionary at: