I/O

Input/Output

IOD/IOR

Input/Output Descriptor / Input/Output Reply. Structures used to send control

 

information about data movement requests in HPSS and about the success or

 

failure of the requests.

IP

Internet Protocol

IRIX

SGI’s implementation of UNIX

junction

A mount point for an HPSS fileset.

KB

Kilobyte (210)

LAN

Local Area Network

LANL

Los Alamos National Laboratory

LARC

Langley Research Center

latency

For tape media, the average time in seconds between the start of a read or

 

write request and the time when the drive actually begins reading or writing

 

the tape.

LCU

Library Control Unit

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LLNL

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

LMCP

Library Manager Control Point

LMU

Library Management Unit

local log

An optional circular log maintained by a Log Client. The central log contains

 

formatted messages from all enabled HPSS servers residing on the same node

 

as the Log Client.

Location Server

An HPSS server that is used to help clients locate the appropriate Core Server

 

and/or other HPSS server to use for a particular request.

Log Client

An HPSS server executing on each HPSS node that is responsible for sending

 

log messages to the local log, to the Log Daemon for central logging, and to

 

SSM to display messages in the Alarm and Event window.

Log Daemon

An HPSS server responsible for writing log messages to the central log.

log record

A record received and maintained in a central log by the HPSS Log Daemon.

log record type

An indicator of whether a message to be logged is an alarm, event, status,

 

debug, request, security, or accounting record.

logging service

An HPSS infrastructure service consisting of a central Log Daemon, one or

 

more Log Clients, and server-specific logging policies.

LRU

Least Recently Used

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