Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

esxcli network firewall get

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "Under Manage, select Settings and go to Security Profile".

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.

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