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Glossary-2 SPARC Enterprise Mx000 Servers Glossary • March 2012
audit class A grouping of audit events. Audit classes provide a way to select a group of
security-related system events to audit.
audit event A security-related system action that is audited. Events are grouped into
classes.
audit file A log where audit records are stored.
audit policy A set of audit options that can be enabled or disabled by the administrator.
These options include the option for specifying events to be recorded and
the option for specifying whether to record specific types of audit data. They
also include the option for specifying whether to stop audit processing when
the audit tray is full.
audit record Audit data stored in the audit file. One audit record has one audit event.
Each audit record consists of audit tokens.
audit token One field in an audit record. An audit token contains an audit event
attribute, such as user or privilege.
audit trail A set of audit logs that have been recorded by the server. The audit trail can
be analyzed with the use of audit tools.
B
Backplane (BP) A circuit board containing a set of sockets to which other circuit boards can
be connected. Pins on the backplane sockets are interconnected by printed
wire traces. These traces allow components on the connected circuit boards
to distribute signals to components on other connected boards.
Backplane Unit (BPU) A unit containing sockets used to connect multiple units. In the SPARC
Enterprise M4000 server, the BPU consists of a power supply backplane and
I/O backplane. In the SPARC Enterprise M5000 server, the BPU consists of a
power supply backplane, I/O backplane, and bus bar.
BP See Backplane (BP).
BPU See Backplane Unit (BPU).
Browser User Interface
(BUI)
Like a Graphical User Interface (GUI), but accessed through a browser.
BUI See Browser User Interface (BUI).