Glossary

Glossary

notification

A message generated and sent to the NetWorker

 

administrator about important NetWorker events.

online indexes

The databases located on the NetWorker server that

 

contain all the information pertaining to the client

 

backups (client file index) and backup volumes (media

 

database).

operator

The person who monitors the server status, loads

 

backup volumes into the server devices, and

 

otherwise executes the day-to-day NetWorker tasks.

override

A NetWorker feature that allows you to configure a

 

different backup level for a specific date listed in a

 

Schedule resource.

package

The term used by HP-UX to denote a cluster server.

 

Also known as an agent (Sun), logical server (HP

 

TruCluster), and virtual server (Microsoft).

packet filtering

A method of firewall protection that looks at each

 

packet entering or leaving the network and accepts or

 

rejects it based on user-defined rules. See also firewall.

parallelism

A NetWorker feature that enables the NetWorker

 

server to either back up save sets from several clients

 

or many save sets from one client at the same time.

 

Parallelism is also available during recovers.

pathname

A set of instructions to the operating system for

 

accessing a file. An absolute pathname tells how to find

 

a file beginning at the root directory and working

 

down the directory tree. A relative pathname tells how

 

to find the file starting where you are now.

physical cluster

A NetWorker client that is bound to a physical

client

machine in the cluster and can represent its own

 

resources (private or local). It can also be called the

 

physical client.

physical host

Any one of the nodes (or machines) that forms the

 

cluster.

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