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Glossary
Terms
This topic provides definitions of terms that are
used in the OFM product.
This glossary defines technical terms and
abbreviations used in this IBM BladeCenter Open
Fabric Manager document. If you do not find the
term you are looking for, view the IBM
Terminology Web site at: http://www.ibm.com/
ibm/terminology.
Selection of Terms: A term is a word or group of
words to be defined. In this glossary, the singular
form of the noun and the infinitive form of the
verb are the terms most often selected to be
defined. If the term may be abbreviated, the
abbreviation is indicated. The abbreviation is also
defined in its proper place in the glossary.
A
available blades
This is a collection of blades that can you
can add to a standby blade pool. This
section will either contain all the blades in
a chassis or all the blades that have been
discovered. To see all the blades that have
been discovered, run BladeCenter
Configuration Manager un-targeted by
double clicking on the task. To see only
the blades in a chassis run BladeCenter
Configuration Manager targeted by
dragging the task onto a BladeCenter
chassis.
B
blade
blade server
An IBM BladeCenter server. A
high-throughput server on a card that
supports symmetric multiprocessors
(SMP).
BladeCenter chassis
A BladeCenter unit that acts as an
enclosure. It enables the individual blade
servers to share resources such as the
management, switch, power and blower
modules.
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BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager
An IBM solution that enables you to
quickly deploy, replace and recover blades
in your environment.
C
chassis
The metal frame in which various
electronic components are mounted.
D
discovery
The process of finding resources within
an enterprise, including finding the new
location of monitored resources that were
moved.
E
event
An occurrence of significance to a task or
system, such as the completion or failure
of an operation. There are two types of
events: alert and resolution.
event action
The action that IBM Director takes in
response to a specific event or events
event-action plan
A user-defined plan that determines how
IBM Director manages certain events. An
event action plan comprises one or more
event filters and one or more customized
event actions.
extension
See IBM Director extension.
I
IBM Director Console
A component of IBM Director software.
When installed on a system, it provides a
graphical user interface (GUI) for
accessing IBM Director Server. IBM
Director Console transfers data to and
from the management server using
TCP/IP.
IBM Director environment
The complex, heterogeneous environment
managed by IBM Director. It includes
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