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of a client or server application. (2) Network management: Portion of an entity
that responds to management requests and/or preprogrammed trap.
agent access module
The portion of an agent responsible for the agent’s end of SNMP.
agent access point
The instance of a connection between a client or director and a server or agent.
agent address
An address that specifies the information needed by a director to establish
communications with the agent’s management interface.
agent attributes
The attributes maintained by the agent. The attributes do not cross the internal
management interface.
aggregate throughput
See throughput.
alias
A name, usually easy to remember, that is translated from a different name,
usually difficult to remember. Most often used as an optional alternate name for
ahost. See also host name.
alias node identifier
An optional node name used by some or all nodes in an OpenVMS Cluster that
allows them to be treated as one node.
alternate address notation
The internet address notation that conveys the same information as the common
notation, but consists of two parts: network and host.
American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
The organization that coordinates U.S. standards in many areas, including
computers and communications.
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII)
The standard character set that assigns an octal sequence to each letter, number,
and selected control characters.
ancillary control process (ACP)
The process that acts as an interface between user software and an I/O driver.
The process provides functions supplementary to those performed in the driver,
such as file and directory management.
Anonymous FTP
A convention of the File Transfer Protocol that allows a user who does not have
explicit authorization to transfer files to and from a host without the need for
an account and password. The user usually logs in with a generic user ID and
an e-mail address as password.
ANSI
See American National Standard Institute.
API
See Application Programming Interface.
application
A program that provides functionality for end users of systems.
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