Users Guide

Glossary 435
DNS
Abbreviation for Domain Name System.
DSU
Abbreviation for disk storage unit.
extended schema
A solution used with Active Directory to determine user access to iDRAC6; 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 iDRAC6.