User's Manual

Conventions
xii Active System Manager User Guide, Release 7.1
Conventions
This guide uses special conventions for the following elements:
• Notes
• Syntax Conventions
• Administrator Role Icon
Notes
Notes and caution statements provide special information. Their appearance and usage is as follows:
Note Indicates information that emphasizes or supplements the main text. A note supplies information
that may apply only in special cases; for example, memory limitations or equipment configurations.
Syntax Conventions
Table 1 describes the text format and character conventions used in this guide.
Table 1 Syntax Conventions
Text Format Convention Example
Bold Indicates toolbar buttons, menu selections, field
names, or items that you click, press, or type.
Click Add or select the SaveAs option.
Courier Indicates console output, path names, source
code, and filenames.
C:\dell\activesystemmanager
Italic Indicates path names for which you must supply
a value.
Indicates a referenced name, especially in
glossary, where See references occur.
Indicates external documentation references.
Drag the interfaces into the WP group, or select Bind > WP
name, or right-click the interface, and select Bind > WP
name.
This feature is called property-based scheduling.
For more information, see the Active System Manager
Release Notes.
Right angle bracket > Indicates a procedural series of submenus that
open from a primary menu.
Click File > New > Worksheet.
Separator characters
(@, _)
Separates a subscriber name or administrator
name and a domain name or domain alias, or
console output that requires text to include a
space.
[e-mail]
The format for any image file is:
/osimage/username_that_imported_the_image/
imagename