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ServerIron ADX Administration Guide xiii
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About This Document
In this chapter
•Audience. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
•Document conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
•Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
•Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
•Getting technical help or reporting errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Audience
This guide is intended for network engineers with a basic knowledge of switching, routing, and
application traffic management.
Supported hardware and software
Although many different software and hardware configurations are tested and supported by
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. for 12.3 documenting all possible configurations and
scenarios is beyond the scope of this document.
The following hardware platforms are supported by this release of this guide:
• ServerIron ADX 1000
• ServerIron ADX 4000
• ServerIron ADX 8000
• ServerIron ADX 10000
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: