Dell Command Line Interface manual Adb, Agp, Ascii, Asic, Aspi, Asr

Glossary

The following list defines or identifies technical terms, abbreviations, and acronyms used in Dell™ user documents.

A

Abbreviation for ampere(s).

AC

Abbreviation for alternating current.

AC power switch

AswitchwithtwoACpowerinputsthatprovidesAC power redundancy by failing over to a standby AC input in the event of a failure to the primary AC input.

access

Refers to the actions a user can take on a variable value. Examples include read-only and read-write.

adapter card

An expansion card that plugs into an expansion-card connector on the computer's system board. An adapter card adds some specialized function to the computer by providing an interface between the expansion bus and a peripheral device. Examples of adapter cards include network cards, sound cards, and SCSI adapters.

ADB

Abbreviation for assign database.

AGP

Abbreviation for accelerated graphics port. A high performance graphics interface available for Intel® Pentium® Pro systems.

ASCII

Acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A text file containing only characters from the ASCII character set (usually created with a text editor, such as Notepad in Microsoft® Windows®) is called an ASCII file.

ASIC

Acronym for application-specific integrated circuit.

ASPI

Advanced SCSI programming interface.

ASR

Abbreviation for automatic system recovery. ASR consists of those procedures that restore the system to running all properly configured domains after one or more domains have been rendered inactive due to software or hardware failures or due to unacceptable environmental conditions.

asset tag code

An individual code assigned to a computer, usually by a system administrator, for security or tracking purposes.

attribute

An attribute, or property, contains a specific piece of information about a manageable component. Attributes can be combined to form groups. If an attribute is defined as read-write, it may be defined by a management application.

authentication

The Server Administrator remote access controller has two methods of authenticating user access:

RAC authentication and local operating system authentication. RAC authentication is always enabled. Administrators can set up specific user accounts and passwords that allow access to the RAC.

Operating systems also require administrators to define different levels of users and user accounts; each user level has different privileges. Local operating system authentication on the RAC is an option for administrators who do not want define one set of privileges for users in the operating system and a separate set of users and accounts for the RAC. If you enable local operating system authentication for the RAC, you enable any user with Administrator status on the operating system to log into the RAC.

autoexec.bat file

The autoexec.bat file is executed when you boot your computer (after executing any commands in the config.sys file). This start-up file contains commands that define the characteristics of each device connected to your computer, and it finds and executes programs stored in locations other than the active directory.

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