Preface

This preface includes the following sections:

Audience

This guide is intended primarily for data center administrators with responsibilities and expertise in one or more of the following:

  • Virtual machine installation and administration

  • Server administration

  • Switch and network administration

Document Conventions

Command descriptions use the following conventions:

Convention Description
bold

Bold text indicates the commands and keywords that you enter literally as shown.

Italic

Italic text indicates arguments for which the user supplies the values.

[x]

Square brackets enclose an optional element (keyword or argument).

[x | y]

Square brackets enclosing keywords or arguments separated by a vertical bar indicate an optional choice.

{x | y}

Braces enclosing keywords or arguments separated by a vertical bar indicate a required choice.

[x {y | z}]

Nested set of square brackets or braces indicate optional or required choices within optional or required elements. Braces and a vertical bar within square brackets indicate a required choice within an optional element.

variable

Indicates a variable for which you supply values, in context where italics cannot be used.

string A nonquoted set of characters. Do not use quotation marks around the string or the string will include the quotation marks.

Examples use the following conventions:

Convention Description
screen font

Terminal sessions and information the switch 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.

< >

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.

This document uses the following conventions:


Note

Means reader take note. Notes contain helpful suggestions or references to material not covered in the manual.


Caution

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


Warning

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS

This warning symbol means danger. You are in a situation that could cause bodily injury. Before you work on any equipment, be aware of the hazards involved with electrical circuitry and be familiar with standard practices for preventing accidents. Use the statement number provided at the end of each warning to locate its translation in the translated safety warnings that accompanied this device.

SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS

Related Documentation

The Application Centric Infrastructure documentation set includes the following documents:

Web-Based Documentation

  • Cisco APIC Management Information Model Reference

  • Cisco APIC Online Help Reference

  • Cisco ACI MIB Support List

Downloadable Documentation

  • Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Release Notes

  • Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Fundamentals Guide

  • Cisco APIC Getting Started Guide

  • Cisco APIC REST API User Guide

  • Cisco APIC Command Line Interface User Guide

  • Cisco APIC Faults, Events, and System Message Guide

  • Cisco APIC Layer 4 to Layer 7 Device Package Development Guide

  • Cisco APIC Layer 4 to Layer 7 Services Deployment Guide

  • Cisco ACI Firmware Management Guide

  • Cisco ACI Troubleshooting Guide

  • Cisco ACI NX-OS Syslog Reference Guide

  • Cisco ACI Switch Command Reference, NX-OS Release 11.0

  • Cisco ACI MIB Quick Reference

  • Cisco Nexus CLI to Cisco APIC Mapping Guide

  • Installing the Cisco Application Virtual Switch with the Cisco APIC

  • Configuring the Cisco Application Virtual Switch using the Cisco APIC

  • Application Centric Infrastructure Fabric Hardware Installation Guide

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