Glossary
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I
Storage Manager Agent
Runs in the background on your system, monitoring and managing event notifications, tasks schedules,
and other on-going processes in your storage space. It requires no user intervention and includes no user
interface.
initialize
Prepare a disk drive for reading and writing.
I/O
Input/Output. Data entering into or being extracted from a system.
L
LAN
Local Area Network. A network of interconnected workstations sharing the resources of a single server,
typically within the area of a small office building.
LED
Light-emitting Diode. An electronic device that lights up when powered.
local system
The computer (or
system
) that you’re working on. In Adaptec Storage Manager, ‘local’ and ‘remote’ are
relative terms.
See also
remote system
.
logged events
Event messages about remote systems that appear in the event log of Adaptec Storage Manager.
See also
Notification Manager
.
logical drive
One or more disk drives grouped together to appear as a single device to an operating system. Also known
as a logical device or array.
M
managed system
A computer (or
system
) in a storage space that’s being managed by Adaptec Storage Manager.
MB
MegaByte. Depending on context, 1,000,000 or 1,048,576 bytes. Also 1000 KB.
mirroring
Data protection that duplicates all data from one drive onto a second drive.
See also
RAID
.
N
Notification Manager
A utility within Adaptec Storage Manager that broadcasts event messages to selected managed systems.
P
parity
A form of data protection used by some RAID levels to re-create the data of a failed disk drive in a logical
drive.
See also
RAID
.
