Users Guide

OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide 1055
Glossary
Importing Loading business objects, packages, or solution blades into the OCC for you to edit.
Instantiate The process of creating an object of a specific class.
ISATAP The Intra-Site Automatic Tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP) is an IPv6 transition
mechanism which is defined as a tunneling IPv6 interface and is meant to transmit IPv6
packets between dual-stack nodes on top of an IPv4 network.
Key In cryptography, a key is a variable value that is applied using an algorithm to a string or
block of unencrypted text to produce encrypted text. The length of the key generally
determines how difficult it will be to decrypt the text in a given message.
Key Management The establishment and enforcement of message encryption and authentication
procedures, in order to provide privacy-enhanced mail (PEM) services for electronic mail
transfer over the Internet.
LCE A Lifecycle Event (LCE) that identifies a specific behavior as defined within the
OpenManage Network Manager Management and Orchestration NFV specification.
Managed Object A network device managed by the system.
Management
Center, Oware
(OMC)
This Oware center deploys and manages solution blades.
Mbeans Management Beans. These objects specify the protocol of the device with which they are
communicating.
Mediation Communication between this application and external systems or devices, for example,
printers. Mediation services let this application treat these devices as objects.
Mediation Agent Any communication to and from equipment is handled by the Mediation Agent. This
communication includes SNMP requests, ASCII requests, and unsolicited ASCII
messages. In addition, the Mediation Agent receives and translates emitted SNMP traps
and converts them into events.
MEG Maintenance Entity Group
MEP Maintenance End Point
Metadata Attributes that describe Oware database objects; data about data (for example, title, size,
author, or subject).
Metadatabase An organized collection of Oware attributes (also called meta-data). For example, the ZIP
Code attribute in the meta-database can describe all database business objects with five
digits (such as, 94101).
MIB Management Information Base. A database (repository) of managed objects containing
object characteristics and parameters that can be monitored by the network management
system.
Multi-Threading Concurrent processing of more than one message by an application.
Network Functions
Virtualization
Infrastructure
(NFVI)
All hardware and software components used to create the environment in which you
deploy virtualized network functions (VNFs).
Note: The NFV infrastructure can span across several locations (such as different data
center operations) and provides the connectivity between these locations.
NFVI and VNF are the are the main entities of network function virtualization.