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Table Of Contents
Cisco Connection Documentation
About This Guide
This chapter provides information on the following topics:
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Document Objectives
This guide describes the tasks and commands necessary to install and configure the CiscoWorks Blue Internetwork Status Monitor (ISM) product.
Audience
This guide is intended for network engineers and Multiple Virtual Storage (MVS) system programmers who are responsible for installing and configuring Cisco resources in a Systems Network Architecture (SNA) environment.
This guide assumes that you are familiar with the basic concepts and terminology used in internetworking and that you understand the network topology and protocols. This guide assumes that a network engineer will install and configure the Cisco resources for use with ISM, and that an MVS system programmer will install and configure ISM on the mainframe.
Document Organization
This guide is divided into the following chapters:
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Document Conventions
The terms resource and router are used throughout this documentation. To avoid confusion, be aware that all routers are resources, therefore the term resource encompasses router—whereas the term router is specific.
This guide uses basic conventions to represent text and table information.
Command descriptions in this guide use the following conventions:
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Examples use the following conventions:
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In addition, this guide uses the following conventions:
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Related Documentation
For more information about CiscoWorks Blue ISM, refer to the following Cisco publications:
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For additional information, refer to the following Cisco publications:
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For more information about using IBM's NetView, you can refer to the following NetView publications:
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Posted: Fri Aug 6 09:49:32 PDT 2004
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