Users Guide

OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide 1059
Glossary
Trap (SNMP Trap) A notification from a network element or device of its status, such as a server startup. This
notification is sent by an SNMP agent to a Network Management System (NMS) where it
is translated into an event by the Mediation Agent.
Trap Forwarding The process of re-emitting trap events to remote hosts. Trap Forwarding is available from
the application through Actions and through the Resource Manager.
Trap Forwarding The process of re-emitting trap events as traps to another management system, such as
the NMS (Network Management System).
UUID (Universally
Unique ID)
A unique 128-bit, system generated value assigned to each network service, virtual
network function, and physical function descriptor.
Virtual Rule
Machine (VRM)
A rule engine encapsulated by a ubiquitous meta schema that manages logic, processes
requests, and associates behaviors required by a solution blade.
Virtual Solution
Machine (VSM)
A complete, integrated set of technologies used to create, execute, and manage Internet
commerce business systems. All of the components, services and technology in a single
product, already integrated and ready to use.
Virtualized
Infrastructure
Manager (VIM)
A functional block that controls and manages Network Functions Virtualization
Infrastructure (NFVI) resources (compute, storage, and network) within an operator’s
infrastructure domain.
VLAN A virtual local area network (LAN), commonly known as a VLAN, is a group of hosts with
a common set of requirements that communicate as if they were attached to the
Broadcast domain, regardless of their physical location. A VLAN has the same attributes as
a physical LAN, but it allows for end stations to be grouped together even if they are not
located on the same network switch. Network reconfiguration can be done through
software instead of physically relocating devices.
WBEM Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) is a set of industry standards that an
enterprise uses to manage its Internet information operations in a distributed computing
environment.