HP Surestore 64 - Director Switch User Manual page 225

SNMP
Simple network management protocol.
SNMP community
Also known as SNMP community string. SNMP community is a cluster of managed
products (in SNMP terminology, hosts) to which the server or managed product running
the SNMP agent belongs.
SNMP community name
The name assigned to a given SNMP community. Queries from an SNMP management
station to a device running an SNMP agent will only elicit a response if those queries are
addressed with the correct SNMP community name.
SSP
See system services processor.
storage area network
A high-performance data communications environment that interconnects computing
and storage resources so that the resources can be effectively shared and consolidated.
subnet mask
Used by a computer to determine whether another computer with which it needs to
communicate is located on a local or remote network. The network mask depends upon
the class of networks to which the computer is connecting. The mask indicates which
digits to look at in a longer network address and allows the router to avoid handling the
entire address. Subnet masking allows routers to move the packets more quickly.
Typically, a subnet may represent all the machines at one geographic location, in one
building, or on the same local area network.
switch priority
Value configured into each switch in a fabric that determines its relative likelihood of
becoming the fabric's principal switch.
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