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Cisco IE 2000 Switch Software Configuration Guide
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Preface
Audience
This guide is for the networking professional managing your swi tch. Before using this guide, you should
have experience working with the Cisco IOS software and be familiar with the concepts and terminology
of Ethernet and local area networking.
Purpose
This guide provides the information that you need to configure Cisco IOS software features on your
switch.
This guide provides procedures for using the commands that have been created or changed for use with
the switch. It does not provide detailed information about these commands. For detailed information
about these commands, see the Cisco IE 2000 Switch Command Reference for this release.
For information about the standard Cisco IOS commands, see the Cisco IOS 15.0 documentation set
available from the Cisco.com home page.
This guide does not provide detailed information on the graphical user interfaces (GUI s) for the
embedded Device Manager. However, the concepts in this guide are applicable to the GUI user. For
information about Device Manager, see the switch online help.
For documentation updates, see the release notes for this release.
Conventions
This publication uses these conventions to convey instructions and information:
Command descriptions use these conventions:
• Commands and keywords are in boldface text.
• Arguments for which you supply values are in italic.
• Square brackets ([ ]) mean optional elements.
• Braces ({ }) group required choices, and vertical bars ( | ) separate the alternative elements.
• Braces and vertical bars within square brackets ([{ | }]) mean a required choice within an optional
element.
Interactive examples use these conventions: