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serial device Any device that is attached to and communicates with a computer by means of a
serial transmission interface. Terminals, some printers, and plotters are among the
devices that communicate serially with computers.
serial transmission A method of transferring data in which characters are transmitted one bit at a time
and received one bit at a time in the order of transmission. This transmission scheme
is employed by devices connected to the systems via the DTC.
SIC Serial Interface Card. A card installed in the DTC that acts as an interface between a
corresponding Connector Card (CC) and the DTC's processor.
slaved device A device that shares the same DTC port as another device and is connected, to the
other device, referred to as its master, by a cable. The actions of the slaved device
are controlled by the master device.
SNMP Simple Network Management Protocol. An industry standard for managing
networked computers in a multi-vendor environment.
SNMP agent A network node, such as a DTC, that can respond to SNMP requests.
SNMP manager A network management workstation that is running software which allows it to
manage SNMP nodes, for example HP OpenView Network Node Manager.
spooled device A printer that is accessed through the HP-UX spooling facility. The spooling facility
allows a device to be shared among several users by temporarily storing output data
on disk and managing the selection of output spool files destined for the spooled
device.
station address A link-level address used by the IEEE 802.3 protocol that is assigned to every node
on an IEEE 802.3 network.
subnet A portion of a network that is defined as a separate network. All the bits in the IP
address specified by the subnet mask (that is, all the bits set to 1 in the subnet mask)
are the same for any two IP addresses in that subnet.
subnet address The portion of the IP address that identifies a physically distinct subnetwork of a
network. It is also called a subnet number.
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