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Updated: July 16, 2019

Chapter: Preface

Chapter Contents
Preface
Audience
Document Conventions
Related Documentation
Documentation Feedback
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

This preface includes the following sections:

Audience
Document Conventions
Related Documentation
Documentation Feedback
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request

Audience
This guide is intended
primarily for data center administrators with responsibilities and expertise in
one or more of the
following:

Virtual machine installation and administration

Server administration

Switch and network administration

Document
Conventions
Command descriptions
use the following conventions:

Convention Description
bold Bold text
indicates the commands and keywords that you enter literally as
shown.
Italic Italic
text indicates arguments for which the user supplies the values.

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Convention Description
[x] Square
brackets enclose an optional element (keyword or argument).
[x | y] Square
brackets enclosing keywords or arguments separated by a vertical bar
indicate
an optional choice.
{x | y} Braces
enclosing keywords or arguments separated by a vertical bar indicate
a required
choice.
[x {y | z}] Nested set
of square brackets or braces indicate optional or required choices
within
optional or required elements. Braces and a vertical bar within square
brackets
indicate a required choice within an optional element.

variable Indicates
a variable for which you supply values, in context where italics
cannot be
used.
string A nonquoted set of
characters. Do not use quotation marks around the string
or the string will
include the quotation marks.

Examples use the

following conventions:

Convention Description
screen font Terminal
sessions and information the switch displays are in screen font.
boldface screen font Information you must enter is in boldface screen font.
italic screen font Arguments
for which you supply values are in italic screen font.
<> Nonprinting characters, such as passwords, are in angle
brackets.
[] Default
responses to system prompts are in square brackets.
!, # An
exclamation point (!) or a pound sign (#) at the beginning of a line of code
indicates a comment line.

This document uses

the following conventions:

Means reader take

note. Notes contain helpful suggestions or references to material not
covered in the
Note manual.

Means reader be
careful. In this situation, you might do something that could result in
equipment damage
Caution or loss of data.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS

Warning
This warning symbol means danger. You are in a situation that could cause bodily injury. Before you work
on any equipment,
be aware of the hazards involved with electrical circuitry and be familiar with standard
practices for preventing accidents.
Use the statement number provided at the end of each warning to
locate its translation in the translated safety warnings that
accompanied this device.
SAVE THESE INSTRUCTIONS

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Related Documentation
Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) Documentation
The following companion guides provide documentation for APIC:

Cisco APIC Getting Started Guide

Cisco APIC Basic Configuration Guide

Cisco ACI Fundamentals

Cisco APIC Layer 2 Networking Configuration Guide

Cisco APIC Layer 3 Networking Configuration Guide

Cisco APIC NX-OS Style Command-Line Interface Configuration Guide

Cisco APIC REST API Configuration Guide

Cisco APIC Layer 4 to Layer 7 Services Deployment Guide

Cisco ACI Virtualization Guide

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure Best Practices Guide

All these documents are available at the following URL: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-systems-

management/application-policy-infrastructure-controller-apic/tsd-products-support-series-home.html

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Documentation

The broader ACI documentation is available at the following URL: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-
systems-management/application-policy-infrastructure-controller-apic/tsd-products-support-series-home.html.

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Simulator Documentation

The Cisco ACI Simulator documentation is available at http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-systems-
management/application-centric-infrastructure-simulator/tsd-products-support-series-home.html.

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches Documentation

The Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches documentation is available at
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/switches/nexus-9000-series-switches/tsd-products-support-series-
home.html.

Cisco Application Virtual Switch Documentation

The Cisco Application Virtual Switch (AVS) documentation is available at
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/switches/application-virtual-switch/tsd-products-support-series-home.html.

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Integration with OpenStack Documentation

Cisco ACI integration with OpenStack documentation is available at http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-
systems-management/application-policy-infrastructure-controller-apic/tsd-products-support-series-home.html.

Documentation
Feedback
To provide technical feedback on this document, or to report an error or omission, please send your comments to
[email protected]. We appreciate your feedback.

Obtaining
Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
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and gathering additional information, see What's New in
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