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.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "Another command we can use to examine a Windows host is snmpwalk."

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

nmap -sP 216.27.130.162

Starting Nmap 5.61TEST4 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2012-04-27 23:30 CDT
Nmap scan report for test-target.net (216.27.130.162)
Host is up (0.00058s latency).
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.06 seconds

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: "clicking on the Next button moves you to the next screen".

Note

Warnings or important notes appear in a box like this.

Tip

Tips and tricks appear like this.