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Preface
Audience
This guide is for the networking professional managing the standalone Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3120
for HP or blade switch stack, referred to as the switch. Before using this guide, you should have
experience working with the Cisco IOS software and be familiar with the concepts and terminology of
Ethernet and local area networking.
You install the switch in the HP BladeSystem server chassis, referred to as the enclosure.
Purpose
This guide provides procedures for using the commands that have been created or changed for use with
the switches. It does not provide detailed information about these commands. For detailed information
about these commands, see the command reference for this release. For information about the standard
Cisco IOS Release 12.2 commands, see the Cisco IOS documentation set available from the Cisco.com
home page at Products & Services > Technical Support & Documentation > See Documentation >
Cisco IOS Software.
This guide does not provide detailed information on the GUIs for the embedded device manager or for
Cisco Network Assistant (hereafter referred to as Network Assistant) that you can use to manage the
switch. However, the concepts in this guide are applicable to the GUI user. For information about the
device manager, see the switch online help. For information about Network Assistant, see Getting
Started with Cisco Network Assistant, available on Cisco.com.
This guide does not describe system messages you might encounter or how to install your switch. For
more information, see the system message guide for this release and the hardware installation guide.
For documentation updates, see the release notes for this release.
Conventions
This publication uses these conventions to convey instructions and information:
Command descriptions use these conventions:
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Commands and keywords are in boldface text.
Arguments for which you supply values are in italic.
Square brackets ([ ]) mean optional elements.
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