Three Letter Acronyms

Like most other technical areas, the Systems Management arena is full of Three Letter Acronyms (TLAs). This page is designed to help you look up a TLA, which technology is applies to, and it's description in full.

SMS	SMS Installer	Tivoli
netIQ	x.500	Miscellaneous

SMS Installer

IDE

PDF

PE

Integrated Development Environment

Package Definition File

Portable Executable

netiQ

AppManager

CCM

CRM

KSs

MC

MO

MS

NetIQCCM

NetIQMC

QDB

WMS

Client Communication Manager

Client Resource Monitor

Knowledge Scripts

Managed Client

Managed Object

Management Service

Client Communication Manager

Client Resource Monitor

The Repository

Web Management Server

Operations Manager

AKM

CAM

DAS

EPR

PRG

Active Knowledge Modules

Consolidator/ Agent Manager

Data Access Server

Event Processing Rule

Processing Rules Group

X.500

AAP

ACIP

ACSP

ava

C

CAIP

CASP

cn

DAC

DAP

DDS

DISP

DIT

DN

DSA

DSP

DUA

HTTP

LDAP

LDIF

MU

o

ou

RDN

RFC

Autonomous Administrative Point

Access Control Inner Point

Access Control Specific Point

attribute value assertion

Country

Collective Attribute Inner Point

Collective Attribute Specific Point

Common Name

Directory Administration Centre

Directory Access Protocol (client to server)

Distributed Directory Service

Directory Information Shadowing Protocol

Directory Information Tree (structure)

Distinguished Name

Directory System Agent

Directory System Protocol (server to server)

Directory User Agent

HyperText Transfer Protocol

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (client protocol)

LDAP Data Interchange Format

Management Unit

Organisation

Organisational Unit

Relative Distinguished Name

Request For Comment

Miscellaneous

AD

ACPI

ADO

API

ASCII

ASP

ATM

BDC

BOA

CIM

CIMOM

CORBA

CPU

CSP

DAO

DFS

DHCP

DLL

DMO

DMTF

DMZ

DNA

DNS

DTMF

EFS

ERD

ESM

FAT

FSMO

FTP

GB

GMT

HTML

HTTP

HTTP d

GUI

HCL

ICMP

IE

IIS

I/O

IP

IPP

IPSec

IPX

IS

ISP

IT

JDBC

JMAPI

JRE

LAN

LDAP

MAN

MAPI

MB

MIB

MSD

MSI

MTA

MTS

NDS

NFS

NT

NTFS

OAT

ODBC

OID

OLAP

OMG

OSPF

OSR

PC

PDC

PnP

RAID

RAM

RAS

RC

RDB

RIP

RIS

ROM

RPC

sa

SAM

SLA

SMTP

SNMP

SSD

SSL

TCO

TCP/IP

UAT

UID

VB

VBA

VM

VPN

UDP

UNC

UPS

URL

WAN

WBEM

WDM

WINS

WSH

Active Directory (Microsoft)

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface

ActiveX Data Objects (Microsoft)

Application Programming Interface

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Active Server Page

Asynchronous Transfer Mode

Backup Domain Controller (Microsoft)

Basic Object Adapter

Common Information Model or
Compaq Insight Manager (Compaq)

Common Information Model Object Manager

Common Object Request Broker Architecture

Central Processing Unit

Cryptographic Service Provider

Data Access Objects

Distributed File System

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

Dynamic Link Library

Distributed Managed Objects

Desktop Management Task Force

De-Militarised Zone

Distributed interNet Application (Microsoft)

Domain Name Service

Desktop Management Task Force

Encrypting File System (Microsoft)

Emergency Repair Disk (Microsoft)

Enterprise Systems Management

File Allocation Table

Floating Single Master Operations

File Transfer Protocol

GigaByte

Greenwich Mean Time

HyperText Markup Language

HyperText Transfer Protocol

HyperText Transfer Protocol daemon

Graphical User Interface

Hardware Compatibility List

Internet Control Message Protocol

Internet Explorer (Microsoft)

Internet Information Services (Microsoft)

Input/ Output

Internet Protocol

Internet Printing Protocol

Internet Protocol Security

Internetwork Packet Exchange

Information Systems

Internet Service Provider

Information Technology

Java DataBase Connectivity

Java Management Application Programming Interface

Java Runtime Environment

Local Area Network

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

Metropolitan Area Network

Mail API

MegaByte

Management Information Base

MicroSoft Diagnostics

MicroSoft Installer

Mail Transfer Agent

Microsoft Transaction Server

Novell Directory Services

Network File System

New Technology (Microsoft)

New Technology File System (Microsoft)

Operations Acceptance Testing

Open DataBase Connectivity

Object IDentifier

OnLine Analytical Processing

Object Management Group

Open Shortest Path First

Operating Service Release (Microsoft)

Personal Computer

Primary Domain Controller (Microsoft)

Plug and Play

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

Random Access Memory

Remote Access Service

Release Candidate

Relational Database

Routing Information Protocol

Remote Installation Services (Microsoft)

Read Only Memory

Remote Procedure Call

System Administrator (SQL)

Service Account Manager (Microsoft)

Service Level Agreement

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

Simple Network Management Protocol

Service Support Disk (Compaq)

Secure Sockets Layer

Total Cost of Ownership

Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol

User Acceptance Testing

Unique IDentifier

Visual Basic (Microsoft)

Visual Basic for Applications

Virtual Memory

Virtual Private Network

User Datagram Protocol

Universal Naming Convention

Uninterruptible Power Supply

Uniform Resource Locator

Wide Area Network

Web Based Enterprise Management

Windows Driver Model (Microsoft)

Windows Internet Naming Service (Microsoft)

Windows Scripting Host (Microsoft)