Cisco Systems OL-11291-01 manual See community string, GL-1

A

agent

B

browser

G L O S S A R Y

Process that resides in all managed devices and reports the values of specified variables to management stations.

GUI-based hypertext client application, such as Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator, used to access hypertext documents and other services located on innumerable remote servers throughout the World Wide Web (WWW) and Internet.

C

Cisco IOS software

CLI

client

collector

command line interface

community name

community string

Cisco Internetwork Operating System software. Cisco system software that provides common functionality, scalability, and security for many Cisco products. The Cisco IOS software allows centralized, integrated, and automated installation and management of internetworks, while ensuring support for a wide variety of protocols, media, services, and platforms.

command line interface. An interface that allows the user to interact with the Cisco IOS software operating system by entering commands and optional arguments.

Node or software program that requests services from a server. The IPM user interface is an example of a client. See also server.

Entity defined to measure network performance statistics from a specific router (source) to a specific device (target). The collector definition includes information about the source target, the protocol used to take measurements, how often measurement are taken, and the length of time (duration) of the measurements.

See CLI.

See community string.

Text string that acts as a password and is used to authenticate messages sent between a management station and a router containing an SNMP agent. The community string is sent in every packet between the manager and the agent. Also called a community name.

D

data-link switching		See DLSw.
		User Guide for Internetwork Performance Monitor
	OL-11291-01		GL-1