2.7.2  Storage Cells are a Type of Managed Entity

As of the current release of SEA, there is only one type of Managed Entity that SEA can monitor and process which is a Storage Cell. This is the general term for a set of hardware and software that stores information, beyond the simple internal disk storage which is managed by the host operating system. A storage cell may be a network-attached storage server, a Storage Area Network (SAN), a disk array system, a Virtual Library System (VLS) or a tape backup system.

In the future, SEA may be able to monitor and process other types of managed entities besides storage cells.