Q-Logic SANBOX2-64 Manuale Utente

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Glossary

A port LED that indicates when frames are 
entering or leaving the port.

A collection of objects that can be zoned 
together. An alias is not a zone, and can 
not have a zone or another alias as a 
member.

Arbitrated Loop Physical Address

A Fibre Channel topology where ports use 
arbitration to establish a point-to-point 
circuit.

A unique one-byte valid value assigned 
during loop initialization to each NL_Port 
on a Loop.

Application Specific Integrated Circuit

A type of network server.

A measure of port buffer capacity equal to 
one frame.

A service which multiplexes frames at 
frame boundaries to or from one or more 
N_Ports wit h acknowledgment provided.

A service which multiplexes frames at 
frame boundaries to or from one or more 
N_Ports without acknowledgment.

User defined name that identifies the 
switch in the fabric.

Expansion port. A switch port that 
connects to another FC-SW-2 compliant 
switch.

See E_Port.

The switch through which the fabric is 
managed.

User defined name associated with the file 
that contains user list data for the fabric.

An LED that indicates that a cooling fan in 
the switch is operating below standard.

Fibre Channel Private Loop Direct Attach

Memory on the switch that contains the 
chassis control firmware.