HP Insight Control for Linux 7.0 Installation Guide

PXE Preboot Execution Environment. A standard client/server interface that enables networked

computers that are not yet installed with an operating system to be configured and booted

remotely. PXE booting is configured at the BIOS level.

RAM disk A portion of RAM memory treated as a disk drive.

remote repository A remote file system mounted on a CMS, that contains the repository contents.

repository A directory containing HP ProLiant Support Packs, supported and custom operating system images,

the boot image, scripts, and the Firmware Update file.

RHEL Red Hat Enterprise Linux

RPM Red Hat Package Manager.

1. A utility that is used for software package management on a Linux operating system, most

notably to install and remove software packages.

2. A software package that is capable of being installed or removed with the RPM software

package management utility.

Secure HTTP See HTTPS.

SLES SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

ssh A program to log in to another system over a network and execute commands on that system. It

also enables you to move files from one system to another, and it provides authentication and

secure communications over insecure channels.

SSH keys

Supermon A highly scalable, high-speed monitoring system. Supermon provides all required system statistics

to the Nagios subsystem. The data collected by Supermon, on a regular basis, includes system

performance sensor and environment data, such as fan, temperature, and power supply status.

virtual guest Also, virtual machine guest. A virtual machine running on a server.

virtual host Also, virtual machine host. A server that is hosting a virtual guest.

virtual machine OS An operating system written for a specific hardware platform that enables you to host a virtual

guest.

virtual media A mechanism that allows a system to boot a virtual CD (that is, a bootable ISO image) over the

network in much the same way that it would be loaded from a CD, and without the use of PXE

or DHCP.