Glossary

Command Line

Interface that depends entirely on the use of commands, such as through telnet or SNMP, and does not involve a GUI.

Community (SNMP)

A relationship between a group of SNMP managers and an SNMP agent, in which authentication, access control, and proxy characteristics are defined. See also SNMP.

Connection Initiator

A port that has originated a Class 1 dedicated connection and received a response from the recipient.

Connection Recipient

A port that has received a Class 1 dedicated connection request and transmitted a response to the originator.

CRC

Cyclic Redundancy Check; a check for transmission errors included in every data frame.

Credit

As applies to Fibre Channel, the number of receive buffers available for transmission of frames between ports. See also BB_Credit, EE_Credit.

Disparity

The relationship of ones and zeros in an encoded character. “Neutral disparity” means an equal number of each, “positive disparity” means a majority of ones, and “negative disparity” means a majority of zeros.

DLS

Dynamic Load Sharing; dynamic distribution of traffic over available paths. Allows for recomputing of routes when an Fx_Port or E_Port changes status.

Domain ID

As applies to SAN switches, a unique number between 1 and 239 that identifies the switch to the fabric and is used in routing frames. Usually automatically assigned by the switch, but can be manually assigned.

E_D_TOV

Error Detect Time-out Value; the minimum amount of time a target waits for a sequence to complete before initiating recovery. Can also be defined as the maximum time allowed for a round-trip transmission before an error condition is declared.

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