Glossary

B
• Breakout Cable
  An optical fiber cable that contains several jacketed simplex optical fibers that are packaged together inside an outer jacket. Synonyms: Fanout cable, Fan-Out cable, Splitter cable.
C
• Chassis Management Module
  A hardware component that controls and monitors 60000 / 40000 Appliance (Chassis) operation such as, fan speed, Chassis and module temperature, and component hot-swapping. Acronym: CMM.
D
• DAC Cable
  Direct Attach Copper cable. A form of the high-speed shielded twinax copper cable with pluggable transceivers on both ends. Used to connect to network devices (switches, routers, or servers).
G
• Gaia gClish
  The name of the global command line shell in Check Point Gaia operating system for Security Gateway Modules. Commands you run in this shell apply to all Security Gateway Module in the Security Group.
P
• Power Entry Module
  Hardware component that supplies DC power with EMC filtering and over-current protection. Acronym: PEM.
• Power Supply Unit
  Hardware component that supplies AC power with filtering and over-current protection. Acronym: PSU.
S
• Security Gateway Module
  A hardware component on a 60000 / 40000 Appliance (Chassis) that operates as a physical Security Gateway. A Chassis contains many Security Gateway Modules that work together as a single, high performance Security Gateway or VSX Gateway. Acronym: SGM.
• Security Group
  A logical group of Security Gateway Modules that provides Active/Active cluster functionality. A Security Group can contain one or more Security Gateway Modules. Security Groups work separately and independently from each other. To the production networks, a Security Group appears a single Security Gateway.
• Security Switch Module
  A hardware component on a 60000 / 40000 Appliance (Chassis) that manages the flow of network traffic to and from the Security Gateway Module in the Chassis. Acronym: SSM.
• Shared Management
  Feature that allows to assign the same Management Port (interface ethX-MgmtY) on a Quantum Maestro Orchestrator to different Security Groups. The assigned Management Port has a different IP address and a different MAC address in each Security Group, to which this port is assigned.
• Single Management Object
  Single Security Gateway object in SmartConsole that represents a Security Group configured on Scalable Chassis. Acronym: SMO.
• SMO
  See "Single Management Object".
• SMO Master
  The Security Gateway Module in a Security Group that handles management tasks for all Security Gateway Modules in the Security Group. By default, this role is assigned to the Security Gateway Module with the lowest Member ID in the Security Group. See "SMO".