NonStop S-Series Planning and Configuration Guide (G06.25+)

Glossary
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S78000 server
S78000 server. See HP NonStop™ Sxx000 server.
S86000 server. See HP NonStop™ Sxx000 server.
S88000 server. See HP NonStop™ Sxx000 server.
Sxx000 server. See HP NonStop™ Sxx000 server.
S-series servers. See HP NonStop™ S-series servers.
SAC. See ServerNet addressable controller (SAC).
sag. A reduction in voltage, usually lasting from one cycle to a few seconds. Sags are
typically caused by fault clearing or by heavy load startups.
SAN. System area network. The preferred term is fabrics.
SANMAN. See external system area network manager process (SANMAN).
saveabend file. A file containing dump information needed by the system debugging tool on
a TNS or TNS/R system. In UNIX systems, such files are usually called core files or
core dump files. A saveabend file is a special case of a save file. See also save file
.
saved-set group ID. An Open System Services (OSS) process attribute that stores a group
ID so that the group ID can later be used as the effective group ID of the process.
saved-set user ID. An Open System Services (OSS) process attribute that stores a user ID
so that the user ID can later be used as the effective user ID of the process.
save file. A file created through the Inspect or Debug product. A save file contains enough
information about a running process at a given time to restart the process at the same
point in its execution. A save file contains an image of the process, data for the
process, and the status of the process at the time the save file was created.
A save file can be created through an Inspect SAVE command at any time. A save file
called a saveabend file can be created by the DMON debug monitor when a process’s
SAVEABEND attribute is set and the process terminates abnormally.
SBB. See ServerNet buffer board (SBB).
SBI. See ServerNet bus interface (SBI).
SC. See Subscriber Channel (SC).
scalar view of the user ID. A view of the HP NonStop™ Kernel user ID, normally used in
the Open System Services (OSS) environment, that is the value
(
group-number * 256) + user-number. Also called the UID.
SCC. See serial communications controller (SCC).