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About This Publication

This section discusses the objectives, audience, organization, and conventions of the Catalyst 8540 MSR Command Reference publication.

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Who Should Read This Publication

This publication is intended as a standalone document for experienced network administrators who will be configuring and maintaining switches and would like to reference commands. For less-experienced users who need to understand the tasks as well as the commands, it is intended as a companion guide to the Catalyst 8540 MSR Software Configuration Guide.

About This Publication

This publication provides an in-depth description of the commands necessary for configuring and maintaining your ATM switch. It describes tasks only in the context of using a particular command; it does not describe how the tasks interrelate nor does it provide comprehensive configuration examples.You can use this publication as a standalone reference manual or in conjunction with the Catalyst 8540 MSR Software Configuration Guide.

Not all of the debug commands are included in this publication. For a complete guide to the debug commands, refer to the Router Products Debug Command Reference publication.

Several Cisco IOS commands are not currently supported in the ATM switch router environment. In this document these commands are identified with a note indicating that the command or some of its parameters might not function as expected.

How This Publication Is Organized

This document is organized alphabetically. Each chapter covers all commands that start with a particular letter, with the exception of the following chapters:

Document Conventions

Command descriptions use the following conventions (see Figure 1 for an example):

Screen examples use the following conventions:

screen font Terminal sessions and information the system displays are in screen font. boldface screen font Information you must enter is in boldface screen font. italic screen font Arguments for which you supply values are in italic screen font.   This pointer highlights an important line of text in an example. ^ The symbol ^ represents the key labeled Control—for example, the key combination ^D in a screen display means hold down the Control key while you press the D key. <   > Nonprinting characters, such as passwords are in angle brackets. [   ] Default responses to system prompts are in square brackets. !, # An exclamation point (!) or a pound sign (#) at the beginning of a line of code indicates a comment line.

Notes use the following convention:

Cautions use the following convention:

Caution Means reader be careful. In this situation, you might do something that could result in equipment damage or loss of data.

Figure 1 explains the fields of a typical command reference page.

Figure 1   Typical Command Reference Page