This glossary includes terms and definitions for UpdateXpress System Pack Installer.
A,
B,
C,
D,
E,
F,
G,
H,
I, J, K, L, M, N,
O,
P, Q, R, S, T,
U, V, W,
X, Y, Z
A
- AMM
- See Advanced Management Module.
- Advanced Management Module
- Advanced Management
Module is a hardware unit that provides system-management functions
for all the blade servers in a BladeCenterBladeCenter
chassis.
B
- Baseboard Management Controller
- A controller
that monitors system platform management events such as fan failure
and temperature or voltage increases, and logs their occurrence.
- Basic Input/Output System (BIOS)
- The code that
controls basic hardware operations, such as interactions with diskette
drives, hard disk drives, and the keyboard.
- BIOS
- See Basic Input/Output System.
C
- CLI
- See Command-line interface.
- Command-line interface
- A type of computer interface
in which the input command is a string of text characters.
D
- deployment
- Install of update packages.
- device driver
- A program that provides an interface
between a specific device and the application program that uses the
device.
- Dynamic System Analysis
- A systems management
software product that collects and analyzes system information to
aid in diagnosing system problems.
E
- Ethernet
- A packet-based networking technology
for local area networks (LANs) that allows multiple access and handles
contention by using Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection
(CSMA/CD) as the access method. Ethernet is standardized in the IEEE
802.3 specification.
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- A standard metalanguage
for defining markup languages that is based on Standard Generalized
Markup Language (SGML).
F
- firmware
- Proprietary code that is usually delivered
as microcode as part of an operating system. Firmware is more efficient
than software loaded from an alterable medium and more adaptable to
change than pure hardware circuitry. An example of firmware is the
Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) in read-only memory (ROM) on a PC
system board.
G
- GUI
- See Graphical user interface.
- Graphical user interface
- A type of computer interface
that presents a visual metaphor of a real-world scene, often of a
desktop, by combining high-resolution graphics, pointing devices,
menu bars and other menus, overlapping windows, icons and the object-action
relationship.
I
- inventory
- To gather information about the system
including installed hardware, device driver versions, and firmware
levels.
- Intelligent Peripheral Management Interface
- A
standard for controlling intelligent devices that monitor a system.
It provides for dynamic discovery of sensors in the system and the
ability to monitor the sensors and be informed when the sensor's values
change or go outside certain boundaries.
- IPMI
- See Intelligent Peripheral Management
Interface.
O
- online update
- An update package that can be applied
through the native operating system.
P
- prerequisite (pre-req)
- A package that must be
installed before another package.
U
- update
- An UpdateXpress System Pack consisting of
an executable file and an XML description.
- UpdateXpress System Pack
- Integration-tested bundle of online firmware and driver updates
for each System x and BladeCenter blade
server.
- UpdateXpress System Pack Installer
- A software application that applies UpdateXpress System Pack updates to your
system.
X
- XML
- See Extensible Markup Language.