NonStop S-Series Server Description Manual (G06.24+)

Glossary
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OSCONFIG file
OSCONFIG file. In G-series release version updates (RVUs), a configuration file built during
system generation that contains only Software Problem Isolation and Fix Facility
(SPIFF) and Software Identification (SWID) tool records. In D-series and earlier RVUs,
the Configuration Utility Program (COUP) uses the $SYSTEM.SYSnn.OSCONFIG file
to store its configuration information.
OSI. See Open Systems Interconnection (OSI).
OSIMAGE. A file built during system generation that contains the complete image of the HP
NonStop™ Kernel operating system that runs in each processor in the system.
OSL. See optical storage library (OSL).
OSL object type. The Subsystem Control Facility (SCF) object type for an optical storage
library (OSL).
OSM. See HP Open System Management (OSM) Interface.
OSM Event Viewer. OSM replacement for the TSM Event Viewer.
OSM Low-Level Link. OSM replacement for the TSM Low-Level Link.
OSM Notification Director. OSM replacement for the TSM Notification Director.
OSM Service Connection. OSM replacement for the TSM Service Application.
OSS. See Open System Services (OSS).
OSS environment. See Open System Services (OSS) environment.
OSS Monitor. See Open System Services (OSS) Monitor.
OSS process ID. In the Open System Services (OSS) environment, the unique identifier
that identifies a process during the lifetime of the process and during the lifetime of the
process group of that process. See also PID
.
OSS signal. See Open System Services (OSS) signal
.
OSS user ID. See HP NonStop™ Kernel user ID.
outage. Time during which a computer system is not capable of doing useful work. Outages
can be planned or unplanned. From the end user’s perspective, an outage is any time
an application being used is not available. See also planned outage and unplanned
outage.
outage minutes. A metric for measuring outages that translates percentages into
minutes/year of downtime.
output destination. The resource to which Subsystem Control Facility (SCF) sends its
responses to commands. SCF can direct output to a disk file, an application process, a