Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) Getting Started (HP-UX 11i v3, February 2007)

Conventions
x VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (VEA 500 Series) Getting Started
Conventions
The following table describes the typographic conventions used in this guide.
Typeface Usage Examples
Courier Computer output, file contents, files,
directories, software elements such as
command options, function names, and
parameters
Read tunables from the
/etc/vx/tunefstab file.
See the ls(1) manual page for
more information.
Italic New terms, book titles, emphasis,
variables to be replaced by a name or
value
See the User’s Guide for details.
The variable ncsize determines the
value of...
Courier bold User input; the “#” symbol indicates a
command prompt.
# mount -F vxfs /h/filesys
Helvetica Bold Menu choices; anything that the user
actually selects, presses, or clicks
Click Create Disk Group
Helvetica (bold
and italic)
Variables to be replaced by a name or value in
user input
# mount -F fstype mount_point
Symbol Usage Examples
> Indicates a submenu Start>Run>SAN Volume Manager
Management Console
Introduces a procedure
Indicates single-step procedures
Indicates a list
Note
Emphasizes important information
% C shell prompt
$ Bourne/Korn/Bash shell prompt
# Superuser prompt (all shells)
\ Continued input on the following line # mount -F vxfs \
/h/filesys
[] In a command synopsis, brackets
indicate an optional argument
ls [-a]
| In a command synopsis, a vertical bar
separates mutually exclusive arguments
mount [suid | nosuid]