Installation and Upgrade Guide

Glossary
This glossary defines key terms in the context of an OpenVMS computing environment.
Availability
Manager
A system management tool that enables the system manager to monitor one or more OpenVMS
nodes on an extended LAN from an OpenVMS, Windows 2000, or Windows XP system.
Availability Manager helps system managers and analysts target a specific node for analysis.
The tool collects system and process data from multiple nodes simultaneously; it analyzes the
data and displays the output. The Availability Manager (base) software installed with OpenVMS
provides the data collection components that allow the system to be monitored by the Availability
Manager and by DECamds.
Baseboard
Management
Controller
See BMC.
BIB Boot-is-blocked. The state of a cell (on a cell-based Integrity server) that is powered on but not
allowed to boot. When all cells assigned to an nPartition are at the BIB state, the nPartition is
inactive and no software can run on the nPartition until it is manually booted past BIB.
See also cell, nPartition.
BladeSystem HP BladeSystem is comprised of blade compute nodes, integrated connectivity to data and
storage networks, and shared power subsystems.
See also BladeSystem enclosure, server blades.
BladeSystem
enclosure
Hardware solution for consolidating server blades and all supporting infrastructure elements
(such as storage, network, and power) into a single unit.
See also BladeSystem, server blades.
BMC Baseboard Management Controller. A utility provided with HP Integrity servers that allows
you to control some management features built into the system board, such as diagnostics,
configuration, and hardware management. It enables you to interact with the Extensible
Firmware Interface (EFI) and to boot the OpenVMS operating system.
See also EFI, MP.
boot The process of loading system software into a processor's main memory. This guide uses the
term boot to refer to this process.
boot server A boot server downloads the system software required by a client system. A TCP boot server
(TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS BOOTP server) is the host that centralizes configuration and
management of an IP address database, such as is used for OpenVMS InfoServer client booting
and satellite booting. For satellite booting, the boot server is part of an OpenVMS Cluster; it
includes either a MOP server (for OpenVMS Alpha systems) or a BOOTP/TFTP server (for
OpenVMS I64 systems), and a disk server for the satellite system disk.
See also InfoServer, satellite node.
bootstrap See boot.
CDSA Common Data Security Architecture. A multiplatform, Open Source security infrastructure.
CDSA provides a stable, standards-based programming interface that enables applications to
access operating system security services. With CDSA, you can create cross-platform,
security-enabled applications. Beginning with Version 2.2, CDSA includes support of Secure
Delivery and HRS (Human Recognition Service Standard). CDSA is automatically installed
with the operating system. For more information about CDSA, see the HP Open Source Security
for OpenVMS, Volume 1: Common Data Security Architecture manual.
See also Secure Delivery, HRS.
cell Also known as a cell board: a circuit board that is the basic building block of an nPartition in
a server complex (such as any HP midrange and high-end Integrity servers). A cell consists of
a symmetric multiprocessor and memory.
See also cell-based server, nPartition, server complex, virtual partition.
cell-based server A server in which all processors and memory are contained in cells, each of which can be
assigned for exclusive use by an nPartition. Each nPartition runs its own instance of an operating
system.
See also cell, nPartition, server complex, virtual partition.
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