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McDATA OPENconnectors Command Line Interface USER MANUAL P/N 620-000134-500
Glossary
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LIN See link incident.
link Physical connection between two devices on a switched fabric.
link incident Interruption to link due to loss of light or other causes.
LIPS Loop Initialization Primitives.
loopback test Test that checks attachment or control unit circuitry, without checking
the mechanism itself, by returning the output of the mechanism as
input.
M
managed product A hardware product that can be managed by the CLI. This usually
refers to the switch or director that has an established connection to
the telnet client. For example, the Intrepid 6064 is a managed product.
See also device.
multiswitch fabric A Fibre Channel fabric created by linking more than one director or
fabric switching device within a fabric.
N
N_Port See node port.
name server (1) In TCP/IP, a program that translates names from one form into
another. Domain name servers (DNS) translate domain names into IP
addresses. (2) In Fibre Channel, a server that allows N_Ports to
register information about themselves. This information allows
N_Ports to discover and learn about one another by sending queries
to the Name Server.
network address Name or address that identifies a managed product on a TCP/IP
network. The network address can be either an IP address in
dotted-decimal notation containing four three-digit octets in the