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Glossary

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AC
Alternating Current
BFD
Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
CDP
Cisco Discovery Protocol
CLI
Command Line Interface
Clickhouse
Columnar analytic database used by NOC to store metrics and analytic data.
Consul
Distributed concensus database used by NOC to synchronize cluster state.
CPE
Customer-Premises Equipment. Associated equipment located at subscriber's premises used to provide service
Box discovery
A group of discovery checks to collect relatively rarely changed information. See box discovery reference for details.
Periodic discovery
A group of discovery checks to collect relatively rapidly changed information. See periodic discovery reference for details.
DC
Direct Current
discovery
A process of checking network's state and keeping the database up-to-date.
FRU
Field Replaceable Unit. Vendor's identification
G.703
ITU-T G.703 standard
IDE
Integrated Developer Environment.

LACP

Todo

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LLDP

Todo

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MIB
Management information base
NDP (Huawei)
Describe
NRI
Network Resource Inventory

Netflow

Todo

network segment
See :doc:/reference/network-segment.
network segment profile
See :doc:/reference/network-segment-profile.
Network Element
See :doc:/reference/managed-object.
managed object
See :doc:/reference/managed-object.
managed object profile
See :doc:/reference/managed-object-profile.

management VLAN

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MIB
Management Information Base. NOC uses MIB to .....
Modbus
Modbus data communication protocol. Mainly used for industrial electronics interconnection.
MTU
Maximum Transmission Unit
mongodb
See :doc:/reference/mongodb.

multicast VLAN

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ethernet OAM

Todo

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PoE
Power over Ethernet
pool
See Pool section for details
PoP
Point of Presence.
postgres
See :doc:/reference/postgres.
RCA
See Root-Cause Analysis
Root-Cause Analysis
A process of problems correlation in order to separate real problems (or root problems) and their inferred consequences.
RS-232
RS-232 serial communications standard
RS-485
RS-485 serial communications standard
service
See Service section for details.
SSH
Secure Shell. Encrypted CLI protocol
STP
Spanning Tree Protocol
subscriber
See subscriber
Telnet
Telnet Protocol. Unencrypted CLI protocol
topology
See :doc:/reference/topology.

UDLD

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VLAN

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