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
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