<%NUMBERING1%>.<%NUMBERING2%>.<%NUMBERING3%> PRTG Manual: List of Abbreviations

See below for a list of abbreviations used in this documentation.

ACL	access control list
ADO	ActiveX Data Objects
ADSL	asymmetric digital subscriber line
AES	Advanced Encryption Standard
AET	Application Entity Title
AIM	AOL Instant Messenger
AJAX	Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
API	application programming interface
ARP	Address Resolution Protocol
AWS	Amazon Web Services

BA	basic authentication
BMC	Baseboard Management Controller

CA	certificate authority
CBQoS	Class Based Quality of Service
CDOT	clustered Data ONTAP
CGI	Common Gateway Interface
CIFS	Common Internet File System
CIM	Common Information Model
CLI	command-line interface
CLR	common language runtime
CoS	Class of Service
CRC	cyclic redundancy check
CSS	cascading style sheets
CSV	comma-separated values

DAG	Database Availability Group
DBMS	database management system
DC	domain controller
DCS	domain components
DES	Data Encryption Standard
DHCP	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DICOM	Digital Imaging and Communications
DN	distinguished name
DNS	Domain Name System
DoS	denial of service
DSCP	Differentiated Services Code Point

EBS	Elastic Block Store
EC2	Elastic Compute Cloud
ECC	Elliptic Curve Cryptography
ELB	Elastic Load Balancing
EVA	Enterprise Virtual Array

FAT	file allocation table
FCP	Fibre Channel Protocol
FCS	Frame Check Sequence
FIPS	Federal Information Processing Standards
FQDN	fully qualified domain name
FTP	File Transfer Protocol
FTPS	FTP over SSL

HDD	hard disk drive
HL7	Health Level 7

IAM	Identity and Access Management
ICMP	Internet Control Message Protocol
ICPIF	Impairment Calculated Planning Impairment Factor
IDE	integrated development environment
iDRAC	Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller
IIS	Microsoft Internet Information Services
iLO	HPE Integrated Lights Out
IMAP	Internet Message Access Protocol
IMM	Integrated Management Module
I/O	input/output
IOPS	input/output operations per second
IPFIX	Internet Protocol Flow Information Export
IPMI	Intelligent Platform Management Interface
IPsec	Internet Protocol Security
IRC	Internet Relay Chat
iRMC	integrated Remote Management Controller
iSCSI	Internet Small Computer System Interface

JSON	JavaScript Object Notation

L2L	LAN-to-LAN
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LIF	logical interface
LUN	logical unit number

MAPI	Messaging Application Programming Interface
MD5	message-digest algorithm 5
MIB	Management Information Base
MOS	mean opinion score
MQTT	Message Queue Telemetry Transport
MSH	message header
MSMQ	Microsoft Message Queuing
MSP	managed service provider
mutex	mutual exclusion
MWL	Modality Worklist

NAS	network-attached storage
NAT	network address translation
NFS	network file system
NIC	network interface card
NMAP	Network Mapper
NSA	Network Security Appliance
NTFS	New Technology File System
NTLM	NT LAN Manager

OAuth2	Open Authorization 2
ODBC	Open Database Connectivity
OID	object identifier
OLEDB	Object Linking and Embedding, Database
OMSA	OpenManage Server Administrator
ONTAPI	DATA ONTAP API
OSPF	Open Shortest Path First
OU	organizational unit

P2P	Peer-to-Peer
PACS	picture archiving and communication system
PAP	Password Authentication Protocol
PCRE	Perl Compatible Regular Expression
PDV	packet delay variation
PEM	Privacy-Enhanced Mail
PMPP	PRTG Mini Probe Protocol
POP3	Post Office Protocol version 3
PRTG	PRTG Network Monitor

QNAP	Quality Network Appliance Provider
QoS	Quality of Service

RADIUS	Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
RAID	redundant array of independent disks
RDP	Remote Desktop Protocol
RDS	Relational Database Service
regex	regular expression
REST	Representational State Transfer
RMON	Remote Monitoring
RPC	remote procedure call
RPM	revolutions per minute
RTT	round-trip time

SaaS	software as a service
SAN	storage area network
SASL	Simple Authentication and Security Layer
SCSI	Small Computer System Interface
SCVMM	System Center Virtual Machine Manager
SHA	Secure Hash Algorithm
SID	Oracle System ID
SIP	Session Initiation Protocol
SLA	service level agreement
S.M.A.R.T.	Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
SMB	server message block
SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNI	Server Name Identification
SNMP	Simple Network Management Protocol
SNR	signal-to-noise ratio
SNS	Simple Notification Service
SNTP	Simple Network Time Protocol
SOAP	Simple Object Access Protocol
SPA	Single Page Application
SPAN	Switched Port Analyzer
SQL	Structured Query Language
SQS	Simple Queue Service
SRP	Secure Remote Password
SSD	solid-state drive
SSH	Secure Shell
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer
SSO	single sign on
SVC	switched virtual circuit

TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
TFTP	Trivial File Transfer Protocol
TLS	Transport Layer Security
ToS	Type of Service

UAC	User Account Control
UCS	Unified Computing System
UDF	User-defined Function
UDP	User Datagram Protocol
UID	Unique Identifier
UNC	Universal Naming Convention
UPnP	Universal Plug and Play
UPS	uninterruptible power supplies
UTC	Coordinated Universal Time
UUID	universally unique identifier

WBEM	Web-based Enterprise Management
WMI	Windows Management Instrumentation
WQL	Windows Management Instrumentation Query Language
WSUS	Windows Server Update Services
WWN	World Wide Name

xFlow	xFlow (NetFlow, jFlow, sFlow, IPFIX)
XML	Extensible Markup Language
XSS	cross-site scripting