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This preface explains the audience, purpose, and organization of the Cisco Digital Subscriber Line Manager NI-1 User Guide. It also defines the conventions that are used to present instructions and information.
The Cisco Digital Subscriber Line Manager NI-1 User Guide is written for network managers, system administrators, and network analysts. It is additionally written for central office (CO) technicians and maintenance personnel who are familiar with telco products and networking systems.
This guide assumes that you have a basic understanding of network design, operation, and terminology, and that you are familiar with the configuration specifications of your own networks. This guide also assumes that you have a basic familiarity with UNIX, and that you have read the Cisco Element Manager Framework User Guide.
The Cisco Digital Subscriber Line Manager NI-1 User Guide describes how to use the Cisco Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) Manager (CDM) graphical user interface (GUI) to manage the Cisco 6100 Series system with an NI-1 configuration. This guide includes descriptions of menus, dialog boxes, system files, and events and alarms. This guide also provides instructions for navigating in CDM, configuring your system, monitoring subscriber status and configuration settings, saving and restoring configuration data, and upgrading the Cisco 6100 Series system software. For additional information on related documentation, see "Related Documentation" later in this preface.
The Cisco Digital Subscriber Line Manager NI-1 User Guide is organized as follows:
This publication uses the document conventions listed in this section.
| Convention | Definition | Sample |
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Times bold | Text body font used for any argument, command, keyword, or punctuation that is part of a command that the user enters in text and command environments. Also used for names of some GUI elements. | This is similar to the UNIX route command. |
Times italic | Text body font used for publication names and for emphasis. | See the Cisco 6100 Series User Guide for further details. |
| Font used for screen displays, prompts, and scripts. | |
Courier bold | Font used to indicate what the user enters in examples of command environments. | Login: root |
| Convention | Definition | Sample | ||
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Vertical bar ( | ) | Separates alternative, mutually exclusive elements. | offset-list {in | out} offset | ||
Square brackets ([ ]) | Indicate optional elements. | [no] offset-list {in | out} offset | ||
Braces ({ }) | Indicate a required choice. | offset-list {in | out} offset | ||
Braces within square brackets ([{ }]) | Indicate a required choice within an optional element. | [{letter\number}Enter] | ||
Boldface | Indicates commands and keywords that are entered literally as shown | [no] offset-list {in | out} offset | ||
Italics | Indicate arguments for which you supply values.
| offset-list {in | out} offset |
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Note Means reader take note. Notes contain helpful suggestions or references to material not covered in the manual. |
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TimeSaver Means the described action saves time. You can save time by performing the action described in the paragraph. |
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Tips Means the following information will help you solve a problem. The tips information might not be troubleshooting or even an action, but could be useful information, similar to a Timesaver. |
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Caution Means reader be careful. In this situation, you might do something that could result in equipment damage or loss of data. |
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