46 CommandCentral Glossary
SAN Access Layer (SAL) A component that performed discovery and access control in the SANPoint Control
| and CommandCentral Storage 4.x products. See Hardware Abstraction Layer |
| (HAL). |
scan | An operation that detects all resources visible to an explorer through either an |
| |
| can initiate the scan operation through the Console. A scan is also performed |
| routinely whenever an |
SCSI | Small Computer Systems Interface. A hardware interface that allows for the |
| connection of multiple peripheral devices to a single expansion board that plugs |
| into the computer. The interface is widely used to connect personal computers |
| to peripheral devices such as disk and media drives. |
SCSI bus | The communication pathway between a SCSI host adapter card and target SCSI |
| devices. Physically, the bus begins at one end of a SCSI cable at the host adapter |
| card and ends at the other end of the cable at the target device. |
SCSI disk | A storage device (fixed disk) attached to a SCSI bus. |
SCSI LUN | A division within a group of SCSI devices that identifies a |
| LUN. |
server | The central point at which data is gathered, and the machine on which the |
| CommandCentral Storage database resides. A typical configuration consists of |
| one server (for example, the CommandCentral Storage Management Server) and |
| several managed hosts. |
SICL (Simple
Instrumentation
Collection Layer)
An engine, residing on the CommandCentral Storage managed host, that launches scripts and transfers the script output to the Alert Manager. Each SICL script, written for a particular vendor’s device, gathers data using native techniques such as vendor CLI, log file scrubbing, and database mining.
slot | An opening in a computer or other network device into which a printed circuit |
| board can be inserted, adding capability to the device. Also expansion slot. |
SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, a commonly used protocol for sending email |
| messages between servers. |
SnapMirror | A method of mirroring volumes and qtrees on NetApp unified storage devices. |
| With SnapMirror, a user can schedule or initiate data transfers, request |
| information about transfers, update a mirror, and manage mirrors. |
| CommandCentral Storage can discover and display information about SnapMirrors. |
| See also mirroring. |
snapshot | A |
SNMP | The Simple Network Management Protocol for Internet network management |
| and communications used to promote interoperability. SNMP depends on |