Service Availability: Principles and Practice

List of Abbreviations

3G	3rd generation
3PP	Third Party Product
ABI	Application Binary Interface
AIS	The SA Forum Application Interface Specification
AMF	The SA Forum Availability Management Framework
AMM	Availability Management Middleware
ANSI	American National Standards Institute
API	Application Programming Interface
ARP	Address Resolution Protocol
ASN.1	Abstract Syntax Notation One
ATCA	Advanced Telecommunication Computing Architecture
ATL	ATLAS Transformation Language
BASH	Born Again Shell
CASE	Computer-Aided Software Engineering
CCB	Configuration Change Bundle
CGBP	Carrier Grade Base Platform
CIM	Common Information Model
CIMOM	Common Information Model Object Manager
CKPT	the SA Forum Checkpoint Service
CLC-CLI	component life-cycle command line interface
CLI	command line interface
CLM	the SA Forum Cluster Membership Service
CORBA	Common Object Request Broker Architecture
COTS	commercial-off-the-shelf
CPU	central processing unit
CSI	component service instance
CST	component service type
DAM	dependability analysis modeling
DAT	domain alarm table
DBMS	database management system
DET	domain entity tree
DIMI	Diagnostics Initiator Management Instrument
DMTF	Distributed Management Task Force
DN	distinguished name
DNS	domain name server
DRT	domain reference table
(E)AM	external active monitoring
EE	execution environment
ETF	entity types file
EVT	the SA Forum Event Service
FAR	Federal Acquisition Regulation
FOSS	free open source software
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