McDATA Enterprise Operating System User Manual page 315

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simple network
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simple network
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protocol community
simple network
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protocol community
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simple network
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management station
SNMP
SNMP community
SNMP community
name
SNMP management
station
storage area network
subnet mask
A computer that provides shared resources, such as files and printers,
to the network. Used primarily to store data, providing access to
shared resources. Usually contains a network operating system.
SNMP. A transmission control protocol/Internet protocol
(TCP/IP)-derived protocol governing network management and
monitoring of network devices.
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.
SNMP management station. An SNMP workstation personal
computer (PC) used to oversee the SNMP network.
See simple network management
See simple network management protocol
See simple network management protocol community
See simple network management protocol management
SAN. A high-performance data communications environment that
interconnects computing and storage resources so that the resources
can be effectively shared and consolidated. See also
network.
A 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
protocol.
community.
name.
local area
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