Table Of Contents
Introducing the Cisco Product Documentation DVD
Viewing Portable Document Format Files
Viewing Illustrations in Documents
About the User Interface
Navigating the Cisco Product Documentation DVD
Searching for Documents
Searching for a Word or Phrase in a Document by Using Your Browser
Searching for Text in Multiple Documents by Using the Search Feature
Tips on Searching for Documents
Technical Assistance and Online Help
Obtaining Documentation
Introducing the Cisco Product Documentation DVD
The Cisco Product Documentation DVD contains the following information:
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A sample of the latest Cisco documentation
•A description of the search and display environment
Tip If you have problems loading pages on the DVD, it is recommended you clear the cache in your browser. Be sure to delete all offline content.
Tip To access the most current version of the complete library of the Cisco Product Documentation, go to: http:www.cisco.com/univercd/home/home.htm
Note To view documents on Cisco Product Documentation CD-ROMs that were released before January 2004, start the earlier version of the Cisco CD-ROM Products application.
Viewing Portable Document Format Files
Documentation is available in both HTML and Adobe Portable Documentation Format (PDF) file formats. In some instances, only a PDF version is available.
Note You must be connected to the Internet to view PDF files if you are using the Cisco Product Documentation DVD.
For information on printing your files, go to the online help in Acrobat.
Viewing Illustrations in Documents
If an illustration does not appear in a document, reload the page; however, in a few documents, the illustration may not load because the graphic file is missing from the Cisco Product Documentation DVD.
To view the documents with the illustrations, go to this URL: http://www.cisco.com/univercd/home/home.htm
About the User Interface
This section describes some of the important features of the Cisco Product Documentation DVD user interface, which includes the following features:
•Table of contents
•Status message area
•Document button bar
Table of Contents
If you are viewing a document, but the section that you want is not displayed, click Table of Contents from the document button bar (that is located at the top and bottom of each document) to see the outline of a document. Click a title and jump to the information that you need.
Status Message Bar
When you position your cursor over a link, the status message bar shows you the page where you will be redirected.
Document Button Bar
To navigate the Cisco Product Documentation DVD, click the document button bar, which appears at the top and bottom of all documents.
•To go to the first page of the Cisco Product Documentation DVD, click Home.
•To view the table of contents for your document, click Table of Contents.
–If you are in a chapter of a book, the table of contents for that book appears.
–If you are in a table of contents, a higher level table of content appears.
•To go to the previous or the next chapter in a document that you are viewing, click Previous or Next.
•To view the glossary of terms and acronyms in a document, click Glossary.
•To send feedback about the documentation, click Feedback.
•To search for many documents, click Search.
•To view context-sensitive help for the Cisco Product Documentation DVD, click Help.
Navigating the Cisco Product Documentation DVD
The Cisco Product Documentation CD is a series of interconnected documents with which you can do the following:
•Navigate the documents by clicking the hypertext links, using the browser toolbar, and the documentation button bar.
•Use the search facility to jump directly to the information that you need.
•Return to the documents that you have previously viewed.
•Track the documents that you have viewed by changing the color of the hypertext links.
•Use the History window to see a list of files that you viewed during your session.
•Save the location of documents by bookmarking the page.
Note Before you view the bookmarks, make sure that the Cisco Product Documentation DVD is running.
Searching for Documents
You can search for a word or for a phrase within a document, or you can search through multiple documents.
Note•The search facility that is described here only searches for data found on the Cisco Product Documentation DVD.
•Only the index pages are indexed for search. Use the search feature to identify high-level documents. The search function does not highlight specific words, but only locates the document.
When you click Search, the search engine scans the data and generates a weighted list of documents that includes the words or phrases that you provide. The weight is a score of how close the engine thinks that the document fits your request, and is based on a large number of factors that include the following:
•The number of times the words or phrases appeared in the document
•If the word or phrase appears in the title of the document
•How close the words or phrases are to each other within the document
Searching for a Word or Phrase in a Document by Using Your Browser
1. To search for a specific word or phrase within a single document, choose Find > Edit, or click the Find icon in the browser toolbar.
2. Enter the text that you want to find in the Find field.
To find text with specific capitalization, click Case Sensitive.
To search backward through a document, click Find Backward.
3. Click Find.
Searching for Text in Multiple Documents by Using the Search Feature
To search for text in multiple documents, you can use the multi-document search feature that is provided on the Cisco Product Documentation DVD:
1. To start the search, click Search on the document button bar.
2. Enter the search string.
3. To start the search, click Search.
4. Select a document from the search results.
5. To navigate through the search results, click Next or Prev.
Tips on Searching for Documents
•When you enter queries in a mixed case, the search engine finds case-sensitive matches.
–When you enter queries that are all in upper case, the search engine only finds upper-case matches.
–When you enter queries that are all in lower case, the search engine queries all versions (mixed, upper, and lower case).
•The simplest search string is a single words consisting of alphanumeric characters. Use a space for any special characters. For example, if you want to search for information about IP/VC, enter: IP VC.
•Enclose an exact string of word in quotation marks. For example, if you only what to see 12000 router installation, enter 12000 router installation.
•You can search for a single word, or you can search for a group of words. Groups of words work like an AND function in the search engine. For example, if you enter 12000 router installation, the search engine finds documents that contain: 12000, router, and installation.
Boolean Commands
The search engine accepts boolean commands, such as AND and OR:
•For example, when you enter 2500 and 2600, the search engine searches for documents containing both 2500 and 2600, but not necessarily together in the same phrase.
•For example, when you enter 2500 or 2600, the search engine searches for documents containing either 2500 or 2600.
Stemming
The search engine can also interpret stemming, which is defined by using an asterisk (*) that acts like a wildcard.
•For example, when you enter ons 155*, the search engine searches for words beginning with ons 155, such as ons 15501, ons 15530, and ons 15540.
•To narrow your search, you can use stemming with other words and phrases; for example: ons 155* ios release 12.2
•Plural forms of words are automatically included in your search; for example, when you enter router, the search engine finds both router and routers.
Technical Assistance and Online Help
•For technical assistance or questions regarding the Cisco Product Documentation DVD, send an e-mail to this address:
doc_cd@cisco.com
•For additional information about the search and display features that are supported on your platform, refer to the online help for your platform.
Obtaining Documentation
Cisco documentation and additional literature are available on Cisco.com. Cisco also provides several ways to obtain technical assistance and other technical resources. These sections explain how to obtain technical information from Cisco Systems.
Cisco.com
You can access the most current Cisco documentation on the World Wide Web at this URL:
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/home/home.htm
You can access the Cisco website at this URL:
http://www.cisco.com
You can access international Cisco websites from this URL:
http://www.cisco.com/public/countries_languages.shtml
For additional help on the Cisco Product Documentation DVD,
go to this URL:
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/abtunicd/index.htm
Ordering Documentation
You can find instructions for ordering documentation at this URL:
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/es_inpck/pdi.htm
You can order Cisco documentation in these ways:
•Registered Cisco.com users (Cisco direct customers) can order Cisco product documentation from:
Ordering tool: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/ordering/index.shtml
Cisco Marketplace: http://www.cisco.com/go/marketplace
•Nonregistered Cisco.com users can order documentation through a local account representative by calling Cisco Systems Corporate Headquarters (California, USA) at 408 526-7208 or, elsewhere in North America, by calling 800 553-NETS (6387).
