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Appendix A Glossary of Terms and Acronyms
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Release 4.5, Revision 2
file system id A 32-bit number that uniquely identifies an aggregate.
FTP File Transfer Protocol
Gatekeeper Server An HPSS server that provides two main services: the ability to schedule
the use of HPSS resources referred to as the Gatekeeping Service, and the
ability to validate user accounts referred to as the Account Validation
Service.
Gatekeeping Service A registered interface in the Gatekeeper Server that provides a site the
mechanism to create local policy on how to throttle or deny create, open
and stage requests and which of these request types to monitor.
Gatekeeping Site Interface The APIs of the gatekeeping site policy code.
Gatekeeping Site Policy The gatekeeping shared library code written by the site to monitor and
throttle create, open, and/or stage requests.
GB Gigabyte (2
30
)
GDA Global Directory Agent
GDS Global Directory Service
GECOS The comment field in a UNIX password entry that can contain general
information about a user, such as office or phone number.
GID Group Identifier
GK Gatekeeper Server.
global mount point A path in the DFS name space where a fileset has been mounted. A global
mount point typically starts with the characters ‘/:’.
GSS Generic Security Service
GUI Graphical User Interface
HA High Availability
HACMP High Availability Clustered Multi-Processing - A software package used
to implement high availability systems.
halt A forced shutdown.
HDM Shorthand for HPSS/DMAP.
hierarchy See Storage Hierarchy.
HIMF HPSS Interim Metadata Format
HiPPI High Performance Parallel Interface
HPSS High Performance Storage System