Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Systems and Workgroups
How We Are Using the Terms “System” and “Workgroup”
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How We Are Using the Terms “System” and
“Workgroup”
System
In this document, we use the term system to mean one HP-UX system, a
single “box”. A system so defined always has its own CPU (for example,
we do not refer to XTerminals as systems) but may or may not have its
own root file system.
See “Types of System” on page 46 for more information.
Workgroup
A workgroup is a group of systems that depend on a common server, or
servers, or on each other, for important services such as NFS-mounted
file systems, and whose users, in most cases, are working on joint
projects, or are in the same team or department.
A workgroup could also consist of a single, multiuser system to which
users log in from terminals or terminal-emulators, though such systems
are not the primary focus of this document.
In this first version of the document, workgroup means a grouping of
predominantly HP-UX systems, but you’ll find some information on
integrating Windows NT systems into such a workgroup.
See “Types of Workgroup” on page 52 for more information.