HP Surestore 64 Director Switch - Manual (Page 137)

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Simple Network Management Protocol
A protocol that specifies a mechanism for network management that is complete, yet
simple. Information is exchanged between agents, which are the devices on the
network being managed, and managers, which are the devices on the network through
which the management is done.
SNMP
See 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.
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.
switch priority
Value configured into each switch in a fabric that determines its relative likelihood of
becoming the fabric’s principal switch.