Users Guide

OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide 1051
Glossary
Access Control Refers to mechanisms and policies that restrict access to computer resources. An access
control list (ACL), for example, specifies what operations different users can perform on
specific files and directories.
Advanced Firewall
Manager (AFM)
An F5 Networks BIG-IP Web application firewall that uses both positive and negative
security models to identify, isolate, and block sophisticated attacks without impacting
legitimate application transactions. AFM is a high-performance, stateful, full-proxy
network security solution designed to guard data centers against incoming threats that
enter the network on the most widely deployed protocols.
Agent Mapper The Mediation Agent handles SNMP requests, SNMP traps, and ASCII grammars
through the Agent Mapper. You must configure the Agent Mapper with each Mediation
Agent location.
Alarm A signal alerting the user to an error or fault. Alarms are produced by events. Alarms
produce a message within the Alarm Window.
API Application Programing Interface—A set of routines used by the application to direct the
performance of procedures by the computer’s operating system.
Applet A small application that performs a single task and runs within a widget engine or larger
program, often as a plug-in.
Application Server A component frameworks container. For example, Enterprise JavaBeans, that includes
fundamental services for access and intra-system communication. Both OpenManage
Network Manager and Oware run in the Application Server.
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange protocol.
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode. ATM is a high bandwidth, low-delay, connection-oriented,
packet-like switching and multiplexing technique.
Authentication The process of determining the identity of a user that is attempting to access a network.
Authentication occurs through challenge/response, time-based code sequences or other
techniques. See CHAP and PAP.
Bare Metal A computer system or network in which a virtual machine is installed directly on hardware
rather than within the host operating system (OS). Bare metal refers to a hard disk where
the OS is installed.
Blade See Solution Blade.
BOM Business Object Manager; responsible for managing all defined objects. Includes object
database. Handles all scheduling, notification, caching and modification services for
objects.
Business Class A category of objects. A business class contains a name that defines the class, properties,
and attributes that define the individual data within the business class. For example, you
can have a business class named Employee that has a persisted property and a Name
attribute.
Note: A business class is not the same as a Java class. Business class is concept that is
unique to Oware.