Users Guide

90 Dell PowerConnect 55xx Systems User Guide
GUI Terms
Each GUI page in the tree view is described in the following sections. A brief
introduction is provided along with steps specifying how to enter information
in the page. The following terms are used:
• Enter — Indicates that information may be entered in the field. It does
not imply that the field is mandatory.
•
Select —Indicates that information may be selected from a drop-down list
or from radio buttons.
•
Displays —Indicates that the field is display only.
CLI Commands
There are certain command entry conventions that apply to all commands.
The following table describes these conventions.
Table 7-5. Common GUI Elements
Telnet Opens a Telnet window. This only works in the Explorer 6 and
Firefox browsers.
Button Description
[ ] In a command line, square brackets indicate an optional
entry..
{ } In a command line, curly brackets indicate a selection of
compulsory parameters separated by the | character. One
option must be selected. For example: flowcontrol
{auto|on|off} means that for the flowcontrol command
either auto, on, or off must be selected.
Italic Font Indicates a parameter value.
Bold Italic Font Indicates a parameter key word.
<button-name> Any individual key on the keyboard. For example click
<Enter>.
Table 7-4. Common GUI Elements (Continued)
Button Description