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About This Document
In this chapter
•How this document is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
•Supported hardware and software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii
•What’s new in this document. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
•Document conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
•Notice to the reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
•Additional information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
•Getting technical help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
•Document feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix

How this document is organized

This document is organized to help you find the information that you want as quickly and easily as
possible.
The document contains the following components:
•Chapter 1, “Installation,” provides system and pre-installation requirements as well as
step-by-step installation instructions.
•Chapter 2, “Network Advisor Configuration,” provides step-by-step instructions to configure a
fresh Network Advisor installation.
•Chapter 3, “Data Migration,” provides pre-migration requirements as well as step-by-step
instructions for migrating data from a previous release of Network Advisor.
•Chapter 4, “Uninstallation,” provides step-by-step instructions for performing a partial or full
uninstall of Network Advisor.
•Appendix A, “References,” provides the following information for quick lookup:
-Network Advisor packages
-Scalability limits
-Edition feature support
-Management server and client ports