Appendix 1: Glossary And Abbreviations - Lenovo ThinkServer User Manual

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Appendix 1: Glossary and Abbreviations

DCM
Intel(R) Data Center Manager, a software development kit to provide basic services such as monitoring and management of power consumption for
the servers, racks, and server groups in the data center.
IPMI
Intelligent Platform Management Interface, an open standard hardware management interface specification, which defines the particular protocol for
communication with embedded management subsystem.
BMC
Baseboard Management Controller, the industrial standard IPMI protocol which provide IPMI interface externally.
DMZ
Demilitarized Zone, a buffer zone created between the a non-secure system and a secure system, in order to solve the problem that the external
network cannot get access to the internal network after the installation of the firewall.
Node Manager
Intelligent Node Management, a power management technology embedded in the Intel server chipset, including v1.5 and v2.0 versions.
NTP
Network Time Protocol, a protocol for synchronizing the times of different computers, can synchronize computers to their server or other clock sources
(e.g., quartz clock, GPS, and etc.), providing a high-accurate time correction (discrepancies with standard time less that 1 millisecond in a LAN, and
tens of milliseconds in a WAN), and can prevent from attacks by malicious protocols in the way of confirmation with encryption.
Smart Grid server
A server used for installing the server terminal software of ThinkServer Smart Grid Technology.
Rated Power
The rated output power of the server device power and its value is usually marked on the nameplate of the server device.
Empirical Power
The power value required by server device for normal operation and its value is usually lower than the rated power of the server device
Power Saved
The difference between the power consumption of all managed server devices running under empirical power and the power consumption of all server
devices under actual running.
Virtual Electricity Meter
As opposed to the actual electricity meter, the virtual electricity meter for devices provided by Smart Grid can show real-time power consumption in the
software graphically.
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