Cisco FirePOWER ASA 5500 series Configuration Manual page 955

network management system. System responsible for managing at least part of a network. An NMS is
NMS
generally a reasonably powerful and well-equipped computer, such as an engineering workstation.
NMSs communicate with agents to help keep track of network statistics and resources.
Devices such as routers and printers that would not normally be called hosts. See also host, network.
node
Storage or memory that, unlike RAM, retains its contents without power. Data in a nonvolatile storage
nonvolatile storage,
device survives a power-off, power-on cycle or reboot.
memory
Network service access point identifier. One of two components of a
NSAPI
component being the IMSI. See also IMSI.
Not-so-stubby-area. An OSPF feature described by RFC 1587. NSSA was first introduced in Cisco
NSSA
IOS software release 11.2. It is a non-proprietary extension of the existing stub area feature that allows
the injection of external routes in a limited fashion into the stub area.
NT Lan Manager. A Microsoft Windows challenge-response authentication method.
NTLM
Network time protocol.
NTP
O
A key exchange protocol that defines how to acquire authenticated keying material. The basic
Oakley
mechanism for Oakley is the
Simplifies access control by letting you apply access control statements to groups of network objects,
object grouping
such as protocol, services, hosts, and networks.
Open Shortest Path First. OSPF is a routing protocol for IP networks. OSPF is a routing protocol
OSPF
widely deployed in large networks because of its efficient use of network bandwidth and its rapid
convergence after changes in topology. The security appliance supports OSPF.
Organizational Unit. An X.500 directory attribute.
OU
Refers to traffic whose destination is on an interface with lower security than the source interface.
outbound
An ACL
outbound ACL
The first interface, usually port 0, that connects to other "untrusted" networks outside the security
outside
appliance; the Internet. See also interface,
P
PPTP
PAC
operation and of handling the
one or more PNSs. It may also tunnel non-IP protocols.
See
PAT
Packet Data Protocol.
PDP
OL-10088-01
Diffie-Hellman
applied to outbound traffic.
Access Concentrator. A device attached to one or more PSTN or ISDN lines capable of
PPTP
Dynamic PAT, interface PAT, and
key exchange algorithm. Oakley is defined in RFC 2412.
interface names, outbound.
protocol. The PAC need only implement TCP/IP to pass traffic to
Static PAT.
Cisco Security Appliance Command Line Configuration Guide
Glossary
GTP tunnel ID, the other
PPP
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