2 Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N System Administrator and Command Reference Guide
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A number assigned by the filer to each
disk when it probes the disks at boot
time.
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An Ethernet interface card.
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A SCSI card, NVRAM card, network card,
hot swap card, or console card that plugs
into a filer expansion slot.
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The slots on the system board in which
you insert expansion cards.
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A filer is a dedicated, special-purpose
network data server that provides fast
and reliable file service to network cli-
ents connected to Ethernet networks.
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Group identification number.
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A group of users defined in the filers
/etc/group file.
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Hypertext Transfer Protocol. An object-
oriented protocol that can be used for
many tasks, such as name servers and
distributed object management systems,
through extension of its request meth-
ods (commands).
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A disk installed in the filer that can be
used to substitute for a failed disk.
Before the disk failure, the hot spare disk
is not part of the RAID disk array.
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The process of adding, removing, or
replacing a disk while the filer is running.
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An expansion card that makes it possible
to add or remove a hard disk with mini-
mal interruption to file system activity.
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A data structure containing information
about files on a filer and in a UNIX file
system.
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A switch on some filer front panels used
for debugging purposes.
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A directory that can be accessed by
name but does not show up in a direc-
tory listing. The .snapshot directories,
except for the one at the mount point or
at the root of the share, are magic
directories.
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The client host responsible for sending
automatic email when certain filer
events occur.
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An option when booting a filer from a
system boot disk. Maintenance mode
provides special commands for trouble-
shooting hardware and configuration.
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Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. A
specification that defines the mecha-
nisms for specifying and describing the
format of Internet message bodies. An
HTTP response containing the MIME
Content-Type header allows the HTTP cli-
ent to invoke the application that is
appropriate for the data received.
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An Ethernet adapter.
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Network File System. A protocol for
networking PCs.