Users Guide

284 Glossary
management station’s system console to control the
managed system.
CSR
Abbreviation for Certificate Signing Request.
DHCP
Abbreviation for Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol, which is a protocol that provides a means to
dynamically allocate IP addresses to computers on a
local area network.
DLL
Abbreviation for Dynamic Link Library, which is a
library of small programs, any of which can be called
when needed by a larger program that is running in the
system. The small program that lets the larger program
communicate with a specific device such as a printer
or scanner is often packaged as a DLL program (or file).
DDNS
Abbreviation for Dynamic Domain Name System.
DMTF
Abbreviation for Distributed Management Task Force.
DNS
Abbreviation for Domain Name System.
DRAC 5
Abbreviation for Dell Remote Access Controller 5.
DSU
Abbreviation for disk storage unit.
extended schema
A solution used with Active Directory to determine
user access to DRAC 5; uses
Dell-defined Active
Directory objects
.
FQDN
Acronym for Fully Qualified Domain Names.
Microsoft
®
Active Directory
®
only supports FQDN of
64 bytes or fewer.
FSMO
Flexible Single Master Operation. It is Microsoft’s way
of guaranteeing atomicity of the extension operation.
GMT
Abbreviation for Greenwich Mean Time, which is the
standard time common to every place in the world.
GMT nominally reflects the mean solar time along the
prime meridian (0 longitude) that runs through the
Greenwich Observatory outside of London, UK.
GPIO
Abbreviation for general purpose input/output.
GRUB
Acronym for GRand Unified Bootloader, a new and
commonly-used Linux loader.
GUI
Abbreviation for graphical user interface, which refers
to a computer display interface that uses elements such
as windows, dialog boxes, and buttons as opposed to a
command prompt interface, in which all user
interaction is displayed and typed in text.
hardware log
Records events generated by the DRAC 5 and the
BMC.
ICMB
Abbreviation for Intelligent Chassis Management Bus.
ICMP
Abbreviation for Internet control message protocol.
ID
Abbreviation for identifier, commonly used when
referring to a user identifier (user ID) or object
identifier (object ID).
IP
Abbreviation for Internet Protocol, which is the
network layer for TCP/IP. IP provides packet routing,
fragmentation, and reassembly.