Abbreviations And Acronyms - IBM TotalStorage DS300 Best Practices Manual

Abbreviations and acronyms

ACL Access Control List
AD Microsoft Active Directory
AFS® Andrew File System
AIX Advanced Interactive eXecutive
ALUA asynchronous logical unit access
ANSI American National Standards
Institute
API Application Programming Interface
APPC Advanced Program to Program
Communication
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ASCII American National Standard Code for
Information Interchange
ASIC application-specific integrated circuit
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BCP Business Continuity Planning
BDC Backup Domain Controller
BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain
BIOS basic input/output system
BOS Base Operating System
BMC baseboard management controller
BSD Berkeley Software Distribution
CA Certification Authorities
CDE Common Desktop Environment
CDMF Commercial Data Masking Facility
CDS Cell Directory Service
CERT Computer Emergency Response Team
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CHAP Challenge Handshake Authentication
Protocol
CLI command line interface
CIFS Common Internet File System
CIM Common Information Model
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CIMOM CIM Object Manager
COW Copy-On-Write
CPM Copper Passthrough Module
C-SPOC Cluster Single Point Of Control
CWDM Coarse Wave Division Multiplexing
DA Directory agent
DASD Direct Access Storage Device
DBM DataBase Management
DCE Distributed Computing Environment
DCOM Distributed Component Object Model
DDE Dynamic Data Exchange
DDNS Dynamic Domain Name System
DEN Directory Enabled Network
DES Data Encryption Standard
DFS™ Distributed File System
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DLC Data Link Control
DLL Dynamic Load Library
DMA direct memory access
DNS Domain Name System
DRP Disaster Recovery Planning
DSA Dynamic System Analysis
DSM Device Specific Module
DWDM Dense Wave Division Multiplexing
EFS Encrypting File Systems
EMS Event Management Services
ERD Emergency Repair Disk
ERP Enterprise Resources Planning
ESC escape character
ESCON Enterprise System Connection
ESM Enclosure Services Module
ESS Enterprise Storage Server
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