Gatekeeping Service A registered interface in the Gatekeeper that provides a site the mechanism to
create local policy on how to throttle or deny create, open and stage requests
and which of these request types to monitor.
Gatekeeping Site Interface The APIs of the gatekeeping site policy code.
Gatekeeping Site Policy The gatekeeping shared library code written by the site to monitor and throttle
create, open, and/or stage requests.
GB Gigabyte (230)
GECOS The comment field in a UNIX password entry that can contain general
information about a user, such as office or phone number.
GID Group Identifier
GK Gatekeeper
GSS Generic Security Service
GUI Graphical User Interface
HA High Availability
HACMP High Availability Clustered Multi-Processing - A software package used to
implement high availability systems.
halt A forced shutdown of an HPSS server.
HDM Shorthand for HPSS/DMAP.
hierarchy See Storage Hierarchy.
HIMF HPSS Interim Metadata Format
HiPPI High Performance Parallel Interface
HPSS High Performance Storage System
HPSS-only fileset An HPSS fileset that is not linked to an external filesystem (e.g., XFS).
IBM International Business Machines Corporation
ID Identifier
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
Imex Import/Export
import An operation in which a cartridge and its associated storage space are made
available to the HPSS system. An import requires that the cartridge has been
physically introduced into a Physical Volume Repository (injected).
Importing the cartridge makes it known to the Physical Volume Library.
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