GL-1
User
Guide

for

the

Cisco

Application

Networking

Manager

5.2
OL-26572-01
GLOSSARY
Date:
3/

28/12
A
ACE
Cisco
Application

Control

Engine,

available
as

a

module

that

resides

in

a

Cisco

Catalyst

6500

series
chassis,
Cisco

7600

ser

ies

router,

or

as

a

st

andalone

appliance.

The

ACE

offers

hi

gh-performance
server
load

balancing

(SLB),

routing

and

bridging

configuration,

traffic

policies,

redundancy

(high
availability),
virtualization

for

resource

management,

SSL,

security

features,

and

application
acceleration
and

optimization.
ACL
Access
Control

List.

A

mechanism

in

computer

security

used

to

enforce

privilege

separation.

An

ACL
identifies
the

privileges

and

access

rights

a

user

or

client

has

to

a

particular

object,

such

as

a

server,

file
system,
or

application.
activate
Places
an

entity
into
the

resource

pool

for

load

balancing
content
requests

or
connections
and

starts

the
keepalive
function.

See

also

suspend .
administrative
distance
The
first
criterion
a

ro

uter

uses

t

o

determine
which
routing
protocol
t

o
use
i

f

two
protocols

provide
route
information

for

the

same

destination.

Administrative

distance

is

a

measure

of

the

trustworthiness
of
the

source

of

the

routing

information.

Administrative

distance

has

only

local

significance,

and

is

not
advertised
in

routing

updates.
The
smaller

the

administrative

distance

value,

the

more

reliable

the

protocol.

The

values

range

from

0
(zero)
for

a

connected

interface

and

1

for

a

static

route,

to

255

for

an

unknown

protocol.
AES
Advanced
Encryption

Standard.

One
of
the

possible

encryption
algorithms
available
for
use

in

SNMP
communications.
ANM
Mobile
ANM
feature

t

hat
allows
supported

mobile

devices

to
access
to
your
ANM

ser

ver
or

ANM

Virtual
Appliance
and

manage

the

network

objects

in

much

the

same

way

you

do

from

an

ANM

client.

Using
a
mobile

device,

you

can

run

ANM

Mobile

as

a

native

application

(app)

or

inside

the

mobile

device
browser.
ANM
server
Dedicated
server

wi

th

ANM

ser

ver
software
and

Red

Hat
Enterprise
Li

nux

(RHEL)

operating
system
installed
on

it.
ANM
Virtual
Appliance
VMware
virtual
appliance

with

ANM

server

software
and
Cisco

Application

Delivery

Engine
Operating
System

(ADE

OS)

installed

on

it.

Cisco

distributes

ANM

Virtual

Appliance

in

Open

Virtual
Appliance
(.

OVA)

format.
ARP
Address
Resolution

Protocol.

Internet

protocol

used

to

map

an

IP

address

to

a

MAC

address.

Defined
in
RFC

826.