HP Surestore Director FC-64 Command Line Interface User's Guide

116 Glossary
event log
Record of significant events that have occurred on the director, such as FRU failures,
degraded operation, and port problems.
expansion port
The physical interface on a Fibre Channel switch within a fabric , that attaches to an
expansion port (E_Port) on ano ther Fibre Channel switch to form a multiswitch fabric.
See also segmented E_Port.
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fabric
Entity that interc onnec ts N_Ports and is c apable o f ro uting ( switching) Fibre Channel
frames using the destination ID information in the Fibre Channel frame header
accompanying the frames.
fabric port
Physic al interface within the fabric that c o nnects to an N_Po rt through a point-to -point
full duplex co nnec tio n.
failover
The automatic and no ndisruptive transitio n of func tions from an active FRU that has
failed to a backup FRU.
FCP
A standard Fibre Channel protocol used to run SCSI over Fibre Channel.
fiber
Physical media types supported by the Fibre Channel specification, such as optical
fiber, twisted pair, and c oaxial cable.