■Alert Messages

Alert messages used within this document are presented as follows:

Note: A note provides emphasis or additional useful detail about a topic or proce-

dure, and can either precede or follow the information it references.

CAUTION !

A caution directs urgent attention to an action or condition which could dam- age equipment or corrupt data or system software if the accompanying proce- dure is not completed or is performed incorrectly. A caution always precedes the information it references.

DANGER !!

A danger message directs urgent attention to an action or condition that has potential to create a hazardous situation or to cause immediate, severe, and possibly fatal injury or adverse long-term health effects if the accompanying procedure is not completed or is performed incorrectly. A danger message al- ways precedes the information it references.

■Notational and Typographic Conventions

The following notational and typographic conventions are used throughout this document to highlight special words, phrases, and actions.

Item

Example(s)

Description of Convention

 

 

 

Publications; course titles

Installation and Service Guide

Italic font

 

 

 

MS Windows or GUI screen titles

Ethernet Setup screen

Italic underlined font

 

 

 

Computer keyboard input keys

Press the [Enter] key.

Monospaced underlined font in

square brackets [ ]

 

 

 

 

 

User-keyed non-variable inputs; system-

show systemstate

Monospaced bold font

generated outputs

 

 

User-keyed variable inputs

Name = <system name>

Monospaced italic bold font in an-

gled brackets < >

 

 

 

 

 

E-mail and IP addresses; URLs; file and

glsfs@sun.com; click Submit;

Monospaced underlined font

folder names; active fields and icons in

www.support.storagetek.com;

GUI windows

cli.exe file; 129.80.64 subnet

 

Emphasized text

Do not touch exposed wiring...

Underlined font

 

 

 

Physical VTSS labels for FRUs, LED indi-

POWER ON indicator; ETH0 port;

Bold caps font

cators, ports, or switches

POWER ENABLE switch

 

 

 

 

Hypertext link (in PDF file) to a figure, ta-

See Figure 2-1on page 2-27; Re-

Blue font (prints black in black and

ble, procedure step, or section heading

peat Step 3; See “Assigning Pass-

white photocopies)

 

words” on page 4-11.

 

Text references to numbered callouts in

Pull the D-ring handle [3].

Bold font in bold square brackets [ ]

accompanying artwork

 

 

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