Specifications

Niagara Release 2.3
Niagara Networking & Connectivity Guide
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Glossary
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browser A browser is sometimes also called a Web browser. This is an application such as
Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Communicator, widely used to locate and
display pages on the World Wide Web.
BUI Browser User Interface. An acronym sometimes used to mean the user access of a
Niagara station (JACE controller or Web Supervisor) using a Web browser, as
opposed to using Java Desktop Environment (JDE).
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category 5 cable The most common type of twisted-pair cable found in LANs. A category 5 cable can
operate at speeds of up to 100 Mbps.
class See IP address class.
client An application on a computer (or other device) making a request of a server device.
For instance, a Niagara host can be a DHCP client, requesting networking setup
information from a DHCP server.
click To click is to tap a mouse button, pressing it down and then immediately releasing it.
Clicking a mouse button is different from pressing (or dragging) a mouse button,
which implies that you hold the button down without releasing it. When used in an
instruction, click means to move the mouse pointer over the object and click the left
mouse button (sometimes called button number one). See double-click and right click
for related terms.
command line An area on the display screen provided by the operating system for the typing of
commands. It is the line that shows the most recently displayed command prompt.
command-line
interpreter
The part of the operating system that processes what you type at a command line.
command prompt The area on the display screen that points to the command line.
Console or Console
window
The console is a command line window that allows command-line Niagara
applications to be run.
context or
context-sensitive
A program feature that causes a displayed element to change depending on the
current selection or operation. For instance, context-sensitive help provides
documentation for the specific object that you have selected. That object is referred
to as the context.