HP Insight Control Software for Linux - Manual (Page 269)

ProLiant Support
Pack See PSP.
PSP ProLiant Support Pack. A set of HP software components that have been bundled together by
HP and verified to work with a particular operating system. An HP ProLiant Support Pack
contains driver components, agent components, and application and utility components. All
these are verified to install together.
PSP dependency
script An optional user-provided script that runs during a PSP deployment to a managed system.
PXE Preboot Execution Environment. A standard client/server interface that enables networked
computers that are not yet installed with an operating system to be configured and booted
remotely. PXE booting is configured at the BIOS level.
R
RAM disk A portion of RAM memory treated as a disk drive.
remote repository A remote file system mounted on a CMS, that contains the repository contents.
repository A directory containing HP ProLiant Support Packs, supported and custom operating system
images, the boot image, scripts, and the Firmware Update file.
RHEL Red Hat Enterprise Linux
RPM Red Hat Package Manager.
1. A utility that is used for software package management on a Linux operating system, most
notably to install and remove software packages.
2. A software package that is capable of being installed or removed with the RPM software
package management utility.
S
Secure HTTP See HTTPS.
SLES SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
ssh A program to log in to another system over a network and execute commands on that system.
It also enables you to move files from one system to another, and it provides authentication
and secure communications over insecure channels.
SSH keys
Supermon A highly scalable, high-speed monitoring system. Supermon provides all required system
statistics to the Nagios subsystem. The data collected by Supermon, on a regular basis, includes
system performance sensor and environment data, such as fan, temperature, and power supply
status.
V
virtual guest Also, virtual machine guest. A virtual machine running on a server.
virtual host Also, virtual machine host. A server that is hosting a virtual guest.
virtual machine
OS An operating system written for a specific hardware platform that enables you to host a virtual
guest.
virtual media A mechanism that allows a system to boot a virtual CD (that is, a bootable ISO image) over the
network in much the same way that it would be loaded from a CD, and without the use of PXE
or DHCP
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