Sun Microsystems SL500 manual Dynamic World Wide

cleaning cartridge A tape cartridge that contains special material to clean the tape path in a transport or tape drive.

LTO cleaning cartridges labels have “CLN” prefixes.

CLI Command line interface.

CompactPCI (cPCI®) Industry standard bus used for card-to-card bus expansion.

containment box A box in the SL500 robotics unit that holds the Z flex cable. The cable retracts into the box as the X table is raised.

D

data cartridge A term used to distinguish a cartridge onto which a tape drive may write data from a cartridge used for cleaning or diagnostic purposes.

diagnostic cartridge A data cartridge with a “DG” label that is used for diagnostic routines.

dWWN See dynamic World Wide Name.

dynamic World Wide

Name (dWWN) A feature that applies dynamic names, rather than fixed names, to network devices. When a dWWN-named device is replaced, the new device is assigned the same WWN as the one it replaced, alleviating the need for re-configuration of the network.

E

environmental monitors A collective term for the sensors that track temperatures, fan speeds, and the status of various other mechanisms within a library.

Ethernet A local-area, packet-switched network technology. Originally designed for coaxial cable, it is now found running over shielded, twisted-pair cable. Ethernet is a 10- or 100-megabytes-per-second LAN.

export The action in which the library places a cartridge into the cartridge access port so that the operator can remove the cartridge from the library. Synonymous with eject.

F

Fibre Channel A bidirectional, full-duplex, point-to-point, serial data channel structured for high performance capacity. The Fibre Channel is an interconnection of multiple communication ports, called N_Ports. These N_Ports are interconnected by a switching network, called a fabric, to a point-to-point link, or an arbitrated loop. Fibre Channel is a generalized transport mechanism with no protocol of its own. A Fibre Channel does not have a native input/output command set, but can transport existing Upper Level Protocols (ULP) such as SCSI and IPI. Fibre Channel operates at speeds of 200 MB per second. Fibre Channel operates over distances of up to 100 m over copper media or up to 10 km over optical links.

flash memory Firmware memory for the current and previous version of library firmware.

G

get An activity in which a robot obtains a cartridge from a cell or tape drive.

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