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46 CommandCentral Glossary

SAN Access Layer (SAL) A component that performed discovery and access control in the SANPoint Control

	and CommandCentral Storage 4.x products. See Hardware Abstraction Layer
	(HAL).
scan	An operation that detects all resources visible to an explorer through either an
	in-band connection or a device manager. A CommandCentral Storage operator
	can initiate the scan operation through the Console. A scan is also performed
	routinely whenever an in-band explorer executes.
SCSI	Small Computer Systems Interface. A hardware interface that allows for the
	connection of multiple peripheral devices to a single expansion board that plugs
	into the computer. The interface is widely used to connect personal computers
	to peripheral devices such as disk and media drives.
SCSI bus	The communication pathway between a SCSI host adapter card and target SCSI
	devices. Physically, the bus begins at one end of a SCSI cable at the host adapter
	card and ends at the other end of the cable at the target device.
SCSI disk	A storage device (fixed disk) attached to a SCSI bus.
SCSI LUN	A division within a group of SCSI devices that identifies a sub-device. See also
	LUN.
server	The central point at which data is gathered, and the machine on which the
	CommandCentral Storage database resides. A typical configuration consists of
	one server (for example, the CommandCentral Storage Management Server) and
	several managed hosts.

SICL (Simple

Instrumentation

Collection Layer)

An engine, residing on the CommandCentral Storage managed host, that launches scripts and transfers the script output to the Alert Manager. Each SICL script, written for a particular vendor’s device, gathers data using native techniques such as vendor CLI, log file scrubbing, and database mining.

slot	An opening in a computer or other network device into which a printed circuit
	board can be inserted, adding capability to the device. Also expansion slot.
SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, a commonly used protocol for sending email
	messages between servers.
SnapMirror	A method of mirroring volumes and qtrees on NetApp unified storage devices.
	With SnapMirror, a user can schedule or initiate data transfers, request
	information about transfers, update a mirror, and manage mirrors.
	CommandCentral Storage can discover and display information about SnapMirrors.
	See also mirroring.
snapshot	A point-in-time image of a volume or file system that can be used as a backup.
SNMP	The Simple Network Management Protocol for Internet network management
	and communications used to promote interoperability. SNMP depends on