Owner's Manual

Glossary 377
NIC
Network interface card, an adapter circuit board installed in a computer to provide
a physical connection to a network.
OID
Object identifier
OSCAR
On Screen Configuration and Reporting, a graphical user interface used for
iKVM access.
PCI
Peripheral component interconnect, a standard interface and bus technology for
connecting peripherals to a system and for communicating with those peripherals.
POST
Power-on self-test, a sequence of diagnostic tests that are run automatically by a
system when it is powered on.
RAC
Remote access controller
RAM
Random-access memory. RAM is general-purpose readable and writable memory
on systems.
RAM disk
A memory-resident program which emulates a hard drive.
RAC
Remote access controller
ROM
Read-only memory, from which data may be read, but to which data cannot be
written.
RPM
Red Hat Package Manager, a package-management system for the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux operating system. RPM helps installation of software packages.
It is similar to an installation program.