Dell PowerVault 50F Installation And Troubleshooting Manual page 161

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The following list defines or identifies
technical terms, abbreviations, and acro-
nyms used in Del™l user documents.
ampere(s)
alternating current
A fabric software facility that supports
multicast group management.
The FC Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) is a stan-
dard defined on top of the FC-PH
standard. It defines the arbitration on a
loop where several FC nodes share a com-
mon medium.
American National Standards Institute
basic input/output system
Celsius
content addressable memories
compact disc
In Class-2 service, the fabric and destina-
tion N_Port provide connectionless
service with notification of delivery or non-
delivery between the two N_Ports.
Class-3 service provides a connectionless
service without notification of delivery be-
tween N_Ports. The transmission and
routing of Class-3 frames is the same as
for Class-2 frames.
centimeter(s)
An SNMP community is a relationship be-
tween an SNMP agent and a set of SNMP
managers that defines authentication, ac-
cess control, and proxy characteristics.
configuration management
central memory
communication management interface
Central processing unit
Credit, applied to a switch, is a numeric
value that represents the maximum num-
ber of receive buffers provided by an
F_Port or FL_Port to its attached N_Port
or NL_Port respectively such that the
N_Port or NL_Port may transmit frames
without over-running the F_Port or
NL_Port.
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