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Degraded
The status reported for an application or service that has experienced an issue
that triggered a Rule.
Device Driver
A program that controls a hardware device and links it to the operating system.
Disaster Recovery (DR)
A term indicating how you maintain and recover data with SolarWinds Failover
Engine in event of a disaster such as a hurricane or fire. DR protection can be
achieved by placing the secondary server at an offsite facility, and replicating
the data through a WAN link.
DNS (Domain Name System) Server
Provides a centralized resource for clients to resolve NetBIOS names to IP
addresses.
Domain
A logical grouping of client server based machines where the administration of
rights across the network are maintained in a centralized resource called a
domain controller.
Domain Controller (DC)
The server responsible for maintaining privileges to domain resources;
sometimes called AD controller in Windows 2003 and above domains.
Dualed
A way to provide higher reliability by dedicating more than one NIC for the
SolarWinds Channel on each server.
Failover
Failover is the process by which the first passive server assumes the active
role when it no longer detects that the active server is alive as a result of a
critical unexpected outage or crash of a server.
Full System Check (FSC)
The internal process automatically started at the initial connection or manually
triggered through the Manage Server GUI to perform verification on the files
and registry keys and then synchronize the differences.
Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)
Also known as an absolute domain name, a FQDN specifies its exact location
in the tree hierarchy of the Domain Name System (DNS). It specifies all domain
levels, including the top-level domain, relative to the root domain. Example:
somehost.example.com., where the trailing dot indicates the root domain.
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