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Glossary

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Express5800/320Fc: Active Upgrade™ User’s Guide

merge system

The stage of the Active Upgrade process during which the system restarts your
applications on the

Upgrade Side

.

When the system is in a merged state, it has access to

critical system resources

,

which you can use to test your applications and verify if the upgrade was
successful.

nesting (nested configuration files)

A method of

calling

one or more existing configuration files from the configuration

file you are currently editing, so that the settings from the called files will also apply
to the file you are editing. See also

child configuration

and

parent configuration

.

parent configuration

A configuration file that calls

child configuration

files and incorporates their settings

in a

nested configuration

.

persistent data file

A file that stores permanent records for an application, such as a database file.

Production Side

The side of a split-mode system that continues to run your applications and serve
live users during the upgrade process. See also

Upgrade Side

.

Remote Desktop Connection

A Microsoft Windows component that allows you to control the keyboard, video and
mouse of a remote system from your local system as though you were sitting at that
system’s console.

You can click the Remote Desktop link in the Active Upgrade console to open a
Remote Desktop Connection to the Upgrade Side of a

split system

.

Remote KVM

A Web browser-based utility that allows you to control the keyboard, video, and
mouse of a remote system from your local desktop as though you were sitting at
that system’s console. (Remote KVM employs the Advanced Video Redirection
(AVR) feature of the VTM console.) Unlike

Remote Desktop Connection

, Remote

KVM can control the remote system even when the remote operating system is not
running.

You can click the Remote KVM link in the Active Upgrade console to open an AVR
session to the Upgrade Side of a

split system

.