Documentation Symbols Key
Notice Icons DescriptionMeaningIcon
Indicates important features or instructions.Informational note
Indicates a situation that might result in loss of data or hardware damage.Caution
Alerts you to the risk of personal injury or death.Warning
Alerts you to the risk of personal injury from a laser.Laser warning
Text and Syntax
Conventions
Examples
DescriptionConvention
To enter configuration mode, type the
configure command:
user@host> configure
Represents text that you type.
Bold text like this
user@host> show chassis alarms
No alarms currently active
Represents output that appears on the
terminal screen.
Fixed-width text like this
■ A policy term is a named structure
that defines match conditions and
actions.
■ JUNOS System Basics Configuration
Guide
■ RFC 1997, BGP Communities
Attribute
■ Introduces important new terms.
■ Identifies book names.
■ Identifies RFC and Internet draft
titles.
Italic text like this
Configure the machine’s domain name:
[edit]
root@# set system domain-name
domain-name
Represents variables (options for which
you substitute a value) in commands or
configuration statements.
Italic text like this
■ To configure a stub area, include
the stub statement at the [edit
protocols ospf area area-id] hierarchy
level.
■ The console port is labeled
CONSOLE.
Represents names of configuration
statements, commands, files, and
directories; IP addresses; configuration
hierarchy levels; or labels on routing
platform components.
Plain text like this
stub <default-metric metric>;
Enclose optional keywords or variables.< > (angle brackets)
broadcast | multicast
(string1 | string2 | string3)
Indicates a choice between the mutually
exclusive keywords or variables on either
side of the symbol. The set of choices is
often enclosed in parentheses for clarity.
| (pipe symbol)
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