Users Guide

66 Glossary
DTK
Acronym for Dell OpenManage Deployment Toolkit. DTK includes a set of
utilities for configuring and deploying Dell systems and is designed for users who
need to build scripted installations to deploy large numbers of servers in a reliable
fashion without having to dramatically change their current deployment
processes. In addition to the command line utilities used to configure various
system features, DTK also provides sample scripts and configuration files to
perform common deployment tasks and documentation. These files and scripts
describe the use of DTK in Microsoft
®
Windows
®
Preinstallation Environment
(Windows PE) and embedded Linux environments.
device driver
A program that allows the operating system or some other program to interface
correctly with a peripheral device, such as a printer.
digital signature
A digital signature is used to authenticate the identity of the signer of a document
and to certify that the original content is unchanged. It is an encryption scheme
for authenticating digital information and is implemented using techniques from
the field of public-key cryptography.
ESM
Abbreviation for Embedded Systems Management.
firmware
Software (programs or data) that has been written onto read-only memory
(ROM). Firmware can boot and operate a device. Each controller contains
firmware that helps provide the controller's functionality.
GCC
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a set of programming language
compilers produced by the GNU Project. It is a free software distributed by the
Free Software Foundation (FSF) and is a key component of the GNU toolchain.
GNU
GNU is a free software operating system. It's name is a recursive acronym for
"GNU's Not Unix", which was chosen because its design is Unix-like, but it
contains no actual UNIX code. The GNU system, combined with a third-party
kernel called Linux, is one of the most widely used operating systems in the world,
commonly known as simply "Linux".