This section describes the industry terms and the Rhino-specific terms that this guide uses.
The following table lists the industry terms. When necessary, it also supplies product-specific information related to the term.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
DTD |
Document type definition (DTD); a set of declarations that define the legal structure, elements, and attributes of a type of SGML document. |
MIB |
Management information base (MIB); an ASN.1 based data structure description that describes the structure of the attributes that a system exposes for monitoring and configuration. |
OID |
Object identifier (OID); a string of numbers that identifies a statistic that can be read through SNMP.
For example, |
SNMP |
Simple network management protocol (SNMP); an application-level protocol used primarily for network device management and monitoring. Rhino TAS includes an SNMP agent for interoperability with external SNMP-aware management clients. For more information, see Rhino Administration and Deployment Guide. |
The following table lists the Rhino-specific terms:
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Base OID |
The prefix nodes of a full OID, rooted at the base of the global OID hierarchy.
For example, |
OID part |
A subset of nodes of a complete OID. For example, a base OID or an OID suffix is an OID part. |
OID suffix |
An OID part that can be appended to a base OID. For example, |
OID suffix mappings descriptor |
A JSON text document that specifies OID suffix mappings for arbitrary resource adaptor entities or profile tables. Deployed into Rhino TAS together with relevant components. |
Parameter set |
An instance of a parameter set type. Parameter sets can have special characteristics such as aggregation of statistics from the child parameter sets of the same parameter set type. |
Parameter set type |
A definition that describes a particular set of statistics available from a deployed component or subsystem. A parameter set type consists of a statistics interface and the metadata that describes the statistics it contains. |
Singleton parameter set type |
A parameter set type that can have only one parameter set created from it. |
Statistics interface |
A usage parameters interface for SLEE-style usage or a statistics parameter set type interface for Rhino-style usage. |
