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Glossary Canopy System User Guide
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pmp-0229 (Mar 2013)
NetBIOS
Protocol defined in RFC 1001 and RFC 1002 to support an
applications programming interface in TCP/IP. This interface allows a
computer to transmit and receive data with another host computer on
the network. RFC 1001 defines the concepts and methods. RFC 1002
defines the detailed specifications. See
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1001.html
and
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1002.html.
Network Address
Translation
Scheme that defines the Access Point Module as a proxy server to
isolate registered Subscriber Modules from the Internet. Defined in
RFC 1631. See http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1631.html
.
Network Management
Station
See NMS.
NMS
Network Management Station. A monitor device that uses Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to control, gather, and report
information about predefined network variables (objects). See also
Simple Network Management Protocol.
Northbound Interface
(NBI)
The interface within Prizm to higher-level systems. This interface
consists of a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent for
integration with a network management system (NMS); a Simple
Object Access Protocol (SOAP) XML-based application programming
interface (API) for web services that supports integration with an
operations support systems (OSS) such as a customer relationship
management (CRM), billing, or provisioning system; and console
automation that allows such higher-level systems to launch and
appropriately display the PrizmEMS management console in a
custom-developed GUI.
Object
Network variable that is defined in the Management Information Base.
OptiPlex
A trademark of Dell, Inc.
OSS
Operations support system, such as a customer relationship
management (CRM), billing, or provisioning system. The application
programming interface (API) for Prizm supports integrating Prizm with
an OSS.
outdiscards count Field
How many outbound packets were discarded without errors that would
have prevented their transmission. (Some of these packets may have
been discarded to increase buffer space.)
outerrrors count Field
How many outbound packets contained errors that prevented their
transmission.
outnucastpkts count
Field
How many packets for which the higher-level protocols requested
transmission to a non-unicast (subnetwork-broadcast or subnetwork-
multicast) address. The number includes those that were discarded or
not sent.
outoctets count Field
How many octets were transmitted out of the interface, including those
that deliver framing information.