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Glossary – Compaq DS20E User Manual

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Glossary

A

Availability - Refers to the amount of time that an application is available to perform

work, typically measured in percentage of uptime.

B

Bootstrap – The act of passing control over a computer to an operating system following
system power-up.

C
CPU – Central Processing Unit
D
E

F
G
GB – Gigabytes
H
I
IDE – Integrated Development Environment
IP – Internet Protocol – The part of TCP/IP Protocol set that provides the routing mechanism.
J
K
L
M
Man pages - Manual pages
MIB – Management Information Base – Set of monitored items that management application and

management agents use to monitor, analyze, and control the operation of managed devices.

MB - Megabytes
N
NIC – Network Interface Card
O
P
Q
R
RAID – Redundant Array of Independent Disks
S

SRM – System Resource Manager, used to configure the bootup parameters of Compaq

AlphaServers.

System Partition – The name of the bootable partition used to configure Compaq
AlphaServers.

Switch – A switch is a network device that selects a path or circuit for sending a unit of

data to its next destination.

T

TCP/IP – Protocol that manages the transmission of packets on a network and checks for

errors.

U

URL – Universal Resource Locator – the name of a specific resource on the Internet.

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W
XYZ

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