Serial Management Protocol (SMP)
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Serial Management Protocol (SMP) is a protocol used in Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) environments to manage and configure SAS expanders and devices over the SAS fabric.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Serial Management Protocol | 1 |
| Serial Management Protocol (SMP) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1773649 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Serial Management Protocol (SMP) Context triple: [SAS-1, transportProtocol, Serial Management Protocol (SMP)]
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A.
SMF
SMF is the three-letter IATA airport code for Sacramento International Airport, the primary commercial airport serving California’s capital city.
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B.
SMIv2
SMIv2 is a standardized data definition language used to describe and structure management information for network devices in SNMP-based network management systems.
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C.
An Architecture for Describing Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Frameworks
"An Architecture for Describing Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Frameworks" is an IETF standards document (RFC 3411) that defines the overall architectural framework and components for SNMP-based network management systems.
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D.
SNMP
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a standard Internet protocol used to monitor, manage, and configure network devices such as routers, switches, and servers.
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E.
SMEX-Lite
SMEX-Lite is a lightweight satellite bus platform originally developed for NASA’s Small Explorer (SMEX) missions and later adapted to support spacecraft like the Deep Space Climate Observatory.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Serial Management Protocol (SMP) Target entity description: Serial Management Protocol (SMP) is a protocol used in Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) environments to manage and configure SAS expanders and devices over the SAS fabric.
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A.
SMF
SMF is the three-letter IATA airport code for Sacramento International Airport, the primary commercial airport serving California’s capital city.
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B.
SMIv2
SMIv2 is a standardized data definition language used to describe and structure management information for network devices in SNMP-based network management systems.
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C.
An Architecture for Describing Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Frameworks
"An Architecture for Describing Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Management Frameworks" is an IETF standards document (RFC 3411) that defines the overall architectural framework and components for SNMP-based network management systems.
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D.
SNMP
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a standard Internet protocol used to monitor, manage, and configure network devices such as routers, switches, and servers.
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E.
SMEX-Lite
SMEX-Lite is a lightweight satellite bus platform originally developed for NASA’s Small Explorer (SMEX) missions and later adapted to support spacecraft like the Deep Space Climate Observatory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
computer network protocol
ⓘ
management protocol ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SMP ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
SAS expanders
ⓘ
SAS initiators ⓘ SAS targets ⓘ |
| communicationType | request-response protocol ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
SATA Tunneling Protocol
ⓘ
surface form:
SATA Tunneling Protocol (STP)
Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP) ⓘ
surface form:
SCSI Protocol (SSP)
|
| definedBy | T10 SAS standards ⓘ |
| designedFor |
configuration of SAS devices
ⓘ
configuration of SAS expanders ⓘ management of SAS devices ⓘ management of SAS expanders ⓘ |
| domain |
direct-attached and switched SAS storage
ⓘ
enterprise storage systems ⓘ |
| enables |
control of SAS link characteristics
ⓘ
enumeration of SAS devices ⓘ maintenance operations on SAS expanders ⓘ |
| layer | management layer over SAS physical links ⓘ |
| messageType |
SMP request
ⓘ
SMP response ⓘ |
| operatesOver | SAS fabric ⓘ |
| partOf |
Serial Attached SCSI
ⓘ
surface form:
Serial Attached SCSI protocol suite
|
| primaryGoal |
centralized management of SAS topology
ⓘ
configuration consistency across SAS fabric ⓘ |
| requires | SAS address for addressing expanders ⓘ |
| scope | intra-SAS domain management ⓘ |
| standardized | yes ⓘ |
| supportsOperation |
device status monitoring
ⓘ
discovery of SAS topology ⓘ error reporting ⓘ link control operations ⓘ reading expander configuration ⓘ routing table management ⓘ writing expander configuration ⓘ zone management in SAS domains ⓘ |
| transportedOver | SAS physical layer ⓘ |
| usedBy |
host bus adapters in SAS systems
ⓘ
storage controllers in SAS systems ⓘ |
| usedIn |
SAS storage networks
ⓘ
Serial Attached SCSI environments ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Serial Management Protocol (SMP) Description of subject: Serial Management Protocol (SMP) is a protocol used in Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) environments to manage and configure SAS expanders and devices over the SAS fabric.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Serial SCSI Protocol
this entity surface form:
Serial Management Protocol