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This preface describes the objectives, audience, organization, and conventions of the Cisco H.323 Signaling Interface User Guide, and explains how to find additional information on related products and services. It contains the following sections:
This guide contains installation, configuration, system management, troubleshooting, and Man-Machine Language (MML) command information for the Cisco H.323 Signaling Interface (HSI).
The intended audience is the system administrator, the system operator, and the system technician.
The system administrator is required to manage the host administrative functions, including:
The system administrator should have an in-depth knowledge of UNIX and a basic knowledge of data and telecommunications networking.
The system operator is assumed to have knowledge of the following:
The system technician is assumed to have knowledge of the following:
This document is organized as follows:
This manual uses the document conventions listed in this section.
| Convention | Meaning | Comments and Examples |
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Boldface | Commands and keywords you enter literally as shown | prov-sta |
Italics | Variables for which you supply values | command interface type You replace the variable with the type of interface. |
| 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 |
Square brackets ([ ]) | Optional elements | command [abc] abc is optional (not required), but you can choose it. |
Vertical bars ( | ) | Separated alternative elements | command [abc | def] You can choose either abc or def, or neither, but not both. |
Braces ({ }) | Required choices | command {abc | def} You must use either abc or def, but not both. |
Braces with vertical bars within square brackets ([{ | }]) | A required choice within an optional element | command [abc{ def | ghi}] You have three options:
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A string | A nonquoted set of characters | For example, when setting an SNMP community string to public, do not use quotation marks around the string; otherwise, the string will include the quotation marks. |
System prompt
| Denotes interactive sessions; indicates that the user enters commands at the prompt | The system prompt indicates the current command mode. For example, the prompt |
Exclamation point (!) at the beginning of a line | A comment line | Comments are sometimes displayed. |
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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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Tip Means the following information will help you solve a problem. The tip 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. |
The following sections provide the titles of documents related to the Cisco H.323 Signaling Interface User Guide.
For information regarding subsequent releases of the Cisco H.323 signaling interface, refer to:
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