Sun Microsystems X4150 Glossary, The following terms are used within the Sun server documentation

Glossary

The following terms are used within the Sun server documentation.

A

access control list

(ACL) A software authorization mechanism that enables you to control which users have access to a server. Users can define ACL rules that are specific to a particular file or directory, granting or denying access to one or more users or groups.

address In networking, a unique code that identifies a node in the network. Names such as “host1.sun.com” are translated to dotted-quad addresses like “168.124.3.4” by the domain name service (DNS).

address resolution A means for mapping Internet addresses into physical media access control (MAC) addresses or domain addresses.

Address Resolution

Protocol (ARP) A protocol used to associate an Internet Protocol (IP) address with a network hardware address (MAC address).

Administrator The person with full access (root) privileges to the managed host system.

Advanced

Configuration and

Power Interface

(ACPI)

An open-industry specification that provides power management capabilities to a system that enables the operating system to determine when peripheral devices are idle and to utilize ACPI-defined mechanisms for putting the devices into low power modes. The ACPI specification also describes a large number of power states for CPUs, devices, and systems as a whole. One feature of the ACPI enables the OS to modify the voltage and frequency of a

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