CP6100 Configuration and Management Manual

Glossary
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ConMgr
ConMgr. See concentrator manager process (ConMgr).
connection. (1) The path between two protocol modules that provides reliable stream
delivery service.
console message. See operator message.
controller. See ServerNet addressable controller (SAC).
COUP. See Configuration Utility Program (COUP).
current configuration file. See configuration file.
data communications equipment (DCE). Equipment that provides all the functions
required to establish, maintain, and terminate a connection and provides the signal
conversion and coding between the data terminal equipment (DTE) and telephone
company lines or data circuits. A DCE is usually a modem.
data link control (DLC). A set of functions associated with Layer 2 of the Open Systems
Interconnection (OSI) reference model. These functions are responsible for reliable
communication between two physically connected nodes.
data link control (DLC) task. Tasks that support the equivalent to Layer 2 of the Open
Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model. Wide area network (WAN) DLC tasks
execute in the ServerNet wide area network (SWAN) concentrator communications line
interface processor (CLIP), and each WAN DLC task controls one line interface.
data terminal equipment (DTE). Equipment that constitutes the data source or data sink
and provides for the communication control function protocol; it includes any piece of
equipment at which a communication path begins or ends.
DCE. See data communications equipment (DCE).
DEFINE. A TACL command you can use to specify a named set of attributes and values to
pass to a process.
Distributed Systems Management (DSM). A set of tools used to manage
NonStop NS-series and NonStop S-series and Expand networks.
Distributed Systems Management/Software Configuration Manager (DSM/SCM). A
graphical user interface (GUI)-based program that installs new software and creates a
new operating system. DSM/SCM creates a new software revision and activates the
new software on the target system.
DLC. See data link control (DLC).
DSC. See Dynamic System Configuration (DSC).
DSM. See Distributed Systems Management (DSM).