Cisco Systems 3700 Series Audience, Organization, Conventions, Preparing to Install the Router

Preface

Audience

Audience

This guide is designed for the person installing, configuring, and maintaining the router, who should be familiar with electronic circuitry and wiring practices and has experience as an electronic or electromechanical technician. It identifies certain procedures that should be performed only by trained and qualified personnel.

Organization

Table 1 lists the major sections of this hardware installation guide.

Table 1	Document Organization
Chapter		Title	Description
Chapter 1		Overview of Cisco 3700 Series Routers	Describes the features and specifications of Cisco 3700 series
			routers.
Chapter 2		Preparing to Install the Router	Describes safety recommendations, site requirements, and
			required tools and equipment, and includes installation checklist.
Chapter 3		Installing the Router	Describes how to install the router, and shows how to connect to
			the router console and auxiliary ports.
Appendix A		Troubleshooting	Describes how to isolate problems, read LEDs, and interpret error
			and recovery messages.
Appendix B		Using the ROM Monitor	Describes the ROM monitor (bootstrap program), how to recover
			an enable password, and how to recover software images.
Appendix C		Configuration Register	Describes the configuration register settings and procedures for
			changing these settings.

Conventions

			This guide uses the conventions listed in Table 2 to convey instructions and information.
Table 2		Document Conventions
Convention			Description
boldface font			Commands and keywords.
italic font			Variables for which you supply values.
[	]		Optional keywords or arguments appear in square brackets.
{x y z}			A choice of required keywords appears in braces separated by vertical bars. You must select one.
screen font			Examples of information displayed on the screen.
boldface screen			Examples of information you must enter.
font
<	>		Nonprinting characters, for example passwords, appear in angle brackets in contexts where italics are
			not available.
[	]		Default responses to system prompts appear in square brackets.
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