Terminology - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual

27.1 Terminology

The following are some terms used in SCPM documentation and in the YaST module.
system configuration
The complete configuration of the computer. It covers all fundamental settings,
such as the use of hard disk partitions, network settings, time zone selection, and
keyboard mappings.
profile or system profile
A state that has been preserved and can be restored at any time.
active profile
The profile last selected. This does not mean that the current system configuration
corresponds exactly to this profile, because the configuration can be modified at
any time.
resource
An element that contributes to the system configuration. This can be a file or a
softlink including metadata (like the user), permissions, or access time. This can
also be a system service that runs in this profile, but is deactivated in another one.
resource group
Every resource belongs to a certain resource group. These groups contain all re-
sources that logically belong together—most groups would contain both a service
and its configuration files. It is very easy to assemble resources managed by SCPM
because this does not require any knowledge of the configuration files of the desired
service. SCPM ships with a selection of preconfigured resource groups that should
be sufficient for most scenarios.
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