User guide

March 2005 Guide To This User Guide
Through Software Release 6.1
Page 26 of 425 Issue 1
Canopy System User Guide
2 USING THIS USER GUIDE
This document should be used with Canopy features through Software Release 6.1 and
CMMmicro Release 2.1.1. The audience for this document includes system operators, network
administrators, and equipment installers.
2.1 FINDING THE INFORMATION YOU NEED
Previous publications of Canopy user documentation were organized by the type of
equipment. Logically then, each was a user manual about a module. The user manual
format had many redundancies and deficiencies that the user guide format avoids.
The user guide format
◦ provides more and better information about how Canopy modules interact with
each other, in both communications and compatibility.
◦ organizes information by the task that the information supports (and thus, in
many cases, by the role that the user plays in the client company).
◦ suggests when information from Canopy module web pages or an SNMP
network management station should be watched carefully, used, or ignored.
◦ defines what the important Canopy system messages and field values mean.
2.1.1 Becoming Familiar with This User Guide
This is a guide to the guide. A high-level overview of the guide and some examples of
where to look provide insight into how information is arranged and labeled.
The Table of Contents provides not only a sequential index of topics but also a visual
glance at the organization of topics in this guide. A few minutes spent with the Table of
Contents in either the paper or the electronic version of this guide can save much more
time in finding information now and in the future. The List of Procedures may be
especially useful in the paper version of this guide, particularly where you mark those
procedures that you wish to frequently see.
In contrast, the List of Figures and List of Tables are most useful for automated searches
on key words in the electronic version of this guide. If a match is present, the match is the
first instance that the search finds.