About This Guide

Target Audience

This guide is intended for super-users and administrators who manage one or more X family devices.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

This guide assumes you, the reader, are familiar with general networking concepts and the following standards and protocols:

•TCP/IP

•UDP

•ICMP

•Ethernet

•Network Time Protocol (NTP)

•Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP)

•Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

Conventions

This guide follows several procedural and typographical conventions to provide clear and understandable instructions and descriptions. These conventions are described in the following sections.

This book uses the following conventions for structuring information:

•Cross References

•Typeface

•Messages

Cross References

When a topic is covered in depth elsewhere in this guide, or in another guide in this series, a cross reference to the additional information is provided. Cross references help you find related topics and information quickly.

Internal Cross References

This guide is designed to be used as an electronic document. It contains cross references to other sections of the document that act as hyperlinks when you view the document online. The following text is a hyperlink: Messages.

External Cross References

Cross references to other publications are not hyperlinked. These cross references will take the form: see <chapter name > in the Publication Name.

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