Avaya S8100 Home Theater Server User Manual


 
Glossary
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394 S8100 Installation and Upgrades
November 2003
Feature Extraction tool (FET)
FET is used for capturing customer features and settings for S8100 with G600 or CMC1 (DEFINITY
ONE or IP600) R4 to R9 switches that cannot be contacted remotely. The output file from FET is
used to create a license file for R10 or higher.
feature key words
These are used to identify RFA features.
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G600
A cabinet formerly called an RMC (rack-mounted cabinet) which, when equipped with protocol-
conversion hardware and software such as the S8100 Media Server, is a media gateway.
GAS
See Global Administration Subsystem (GAS)
GEDI
Graphically Enhanced DEFINITY interface. It is an enhanced system access terminal (SAT) with a
Windows look.
Global Administration Subsystem (GAS)
A module that provides command-line access to certain administration and maintenance functions
needed by services tools and provides administration support for parameters in the S8100 system that
are not otherwise provided by the S8100 applications.
Global Alarm Module (GAM)
A Windows NT process that coordinates alarm reporting for the S8100 platform. Its primary
functions are to accept and forward alarms from the applications, generate alarms for Windows NT,
and manage the communication links to the Operations Support Systems (OSSs) via the Windows NT
TAPI interface.
Global Sanity Keeper (GSK)
A module that ensures that every authorized Avaya application is executing on an S8100 server. It
contains two major components, a watchdog process and a license server.
Glue application/module
An S8100 application that integrates functionality for most or all other S8100 applications. Examples
include Watchdog, Lucent Access Control (LAC), Global Alarm Module (GAM), Global
Administration Subsystem (GAS), and Backup/Restore.
graphical user interface (GUI)
The use of pictures rather than just words to represent the input and output of a program. A program
with a GUI runs under some windowing system (for example, X Window System, Microsoft
Windows, Acorn RISC OS, and NeXTstep). The program displays certain icons, buttons, dialogs,
etc., in its windows on the screen and the user controls it mainly by moving a pointer on the screen
(typically controlled by a mouse) and selecting certain objects by pressing buttons on the mouse
while the pointer is pointing at them.
Group Authorization ID
Numbers assigned to a company or parts of a company. They are used to determine access permission
to system records.