10 | About This Guidew w w . d e l l . c o m | s u p p o r t . d e l l . c o mAudienceThis guide assumes you are knowledgeable in Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking technologies, that youhave an understanding of the SFTOS software base and have read the appropriate specification for therelevant switch platform.This document is primarily for system administrators configuring and operating a system using SFTOSsoftware. It is intended to provide an understanding of the configuration options of SFTOS software.In addition, software engineers who will be integrating SFTOS software into their router or switchproduct can benefit from a description of the configuration options.How to Use this GuideThis guide is structured so that you can look up not only command syntax, but also how commands arerelated. Related commands are generally grouped together, and, in addition, some command statementscontain links to descriptions of related commands.While you can infer a lot about the use of a command from its syntax statement, you are better servedto see if the SFTOS Configuration Guide uses the command, because you can learn more about thecontext of its use.Regarding RFCs and MIBs (management information base files) supported in S-Series systems, syntaxstatements in this guide and related instructions in the SFTOS Configuration Guide cite the relevantRFCs. Also, an appendix in that guide contains a list of the RFCs and MIBs.This guide is structured in this sequence:• New Features on page 3 is a quick way to access new and changed commands.• Chapter 2, SFTOS Overview briefly introduce the S-Series hardware and SFTOS software.• Chapter 3, Quick Start is an introduction to how to start and configure the S-Series using SFTOSsoftware.• Information on how this guide presents the CLI modes, syntax, conventions, and terminology is inChapter 4, “Using the Command Line Interface,” on page 23.• The CLI command syntax statements begin in Chapter 5, System Management Commands.Chapters 6 through 11 describe commands that manage the system, while the later chaptersdescribe commands specific to particular networking protocols. Beginning with Release 2.3, theCLI syntax statements that are new or changed include a Command History table.Related Documents and Sources of Additional InformationThe following documents provide information on using Dell Force10 S-Series switches andSFTOS software. All of the documents are available on the Documents tab of iSupport (theDell Force10 support website): http://www.force10networks.com/support:•SFTOS Command Reference•SFTOS Configuration Guide•SFTOS and S-Series Release Notes
