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Glossary
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Availability - Refers to the amount of time that an application is available to perform work, typically measured in percentage of uptime.
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Bootstrap – The act of passing control over a computer to an operating system following system
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CPU – Central Processing Unit
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GB – Gigabytes
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IDE – Integrated Development Environment
IP – Internet Protocol – The part of TCP/IP Protocol set that provides the routing mechanism.
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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
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NIC – Network Interface Card
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RAID – Redundant Array of Independent Disks
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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.
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TCP/IP – Protocol that manages the transmission of packets on a network and checks for errors.
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URL – Universal Resource Locator – the name of a specific resource on the Internet.
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