Users Guide
Preface
Documentation Conventions
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 Text in italics indicates terms, emphasis, variables, or document titles. For 
example:
 What are shortcut keys?
 To enter the date type mm/dd/yyyy (where mm is the month, dd is the 
day, and yyyy is the year).
 Topic titles between quotation marks identify related topics either within this 
manual or in the online help, which is also referred to as the help system 
throughout this document.
 Command line interface (CLI) command syntax conventions include the 
following:
 Plain text indicates items that you must type as shown. For example:
 qaucli -pr nic -ei
 <> (angle brackets) indicate a variable whose value you must 
specify. For example: 
 <serial_number>
 [] (square brackets) indicate an optional parameter. For example:
[<file_name>] means specify a file name, or omit it to select 
the default file name.
 | (vertical bar) indicates mutually exclusive options; select one option 
only. For example:
 on|off
 1|2|3|4
 ... (ellipsis) indicates that the preceding item may be repeated. For 
example:
x... means one or more instances of x.
[x...] means zero or more instances of x.
⋮ (vertical ellipsis) within command example output indicate where 
portions of repetitious output data have been intentionally omitted.
NOTE
For CLI commands only, variable names are always indicated 
using angle brackets instead of italics.










