McDATA OPENconnectors Command Line Interface USER MANUAL P/N 620-000134-500
Glossary
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SNMP community Also known as SNMP community string. SNMP community is a
cluster of managed products (in SNMP terminology, hosts) to which
the server or managed product running the SNMP agent belongs.
SNMP community
name The name assigned to a given SNMP community. Queries from an
SNMP management station to a device running an SNMP agent will
only elicit a response if those queries are addressed with the correct
SNMP community name.
storage area network A high-performance data communications environment that
interconnects computing and storage resources so that the resources
can be effectively shared and consolidated.
subnet mask Used by a computer to determine whether another computer with
which it needs to communicate is located on a local or remote
network. The network mask depends upon the class of networks to
which the computer is connecting. The mask indicates which digits to
look at in a longer network address and allows the router to avoid
handling the entire address.
switch priority Value configured into each switch in a fabric that determines its
relative likelihood of becoming the fabric’s principal switch.
T
topology The logical, physical, or both arrangement of stations on a network.
trap The unsolicited notification of an event originating from a SNMP
managed device and directed to an SNMP network management
station.
U
UPM See universal port module.
universal port module A flexible 1 gigabit-per-second or 2 gigabit-per-second module that
contains four generic ports (G_Ports).