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

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

ACL	access control list
AD	Active Directory
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
ASN.1	Abstract Syntax Notation One
AWS	Amazon Web Services
Azure AD	Azure Active Directory

BA	basic authentication
BMC	Baseboard Management Controller

CA	certificate authority
CBQoS	Class Based Quality of Service
CGI	Common Gateway Interface
CIFS	Common Internet File System
CLI	command-line interface
CLR	common language runtime
COM	component object model
CPG	Common Provisioning Group
CRC	cyclic redundancy check
CSP	cloud solution provider
CSV	comma-separated values

DAE	disk-array enclosure
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 in Medicine
DN	distinguished name
DNS	Domain Name System
DoS	denial of service
DPE	disk processor enclosure
DSCP	Differentiated Services Code Point
DTU	Database Transaction Unit

EBS	Elastic Block Store
EC2	Elastic Compute Cloud
ECC	Elliptic Curve Cryptography
eDTU	elastic Database Transaction Unit
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
Flow	Flow (NetFlow, jFlow, sFlow, IPFIX)
FQDN	fully qualified domain name
FTP	File Transfer Protocol
FTPS	FTP over SSL

GID	global ID
GUID	globally unique identifier

HL7	Health Level 7
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol

I/O	input/output
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
IKE	Internet Key Exchange
iLO	HPE Integrated Lights Out
IMAP	Internet Message Access Protocol
IMM	Integrated Management Module
IOPS	input/output operations per second
IoT	Internet of Things
IPC	Industrial PC
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
JWKS	JSON Web Key Set

L2L	LAN-to-LAN
LCU	load balancer capacity units
LDAP	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
LIF	logical interface
LUN	logical unit number

MD5	message-digest algorithm 5
MIB	Management Information Base
MOID	managed object identifier
MOS	mean opinion score
MQTT	Message Queue Telemetry Transport
ms	milliseconds
msec	milliseconds
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
OLE DB	Object Linking and Embedding, Database
OMSA	OpenManage Server Administrator
ONTAPI	DATA ONTAP API
OPC UA	OPC Unified Architecture
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

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
Redfish	Redfish Scalable Platforms Management API
regex	regular expression
REST	Representational State Transfer
RMON	Remote Monitoring
RODC	Read-only Domain Controllers
RPC	remote procedure call
RPM	revolutions per minute
RST	number of reset
RTT	round-trip time
RTU	Remote Terminal Unit

S.M.A.R.T.	Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
SaaS	software as a service
SAN	storage area network
SASL	Simple Authentication and Security Layer
SCSI	Small Computer System Interface
SHA	Secure Hash Algorithm
SID	Oracle System ID
SIP	Session Initiation Protocol
SLA	service level agreement
SMB	server message block
SMTP	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNI	Server Name Indication
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
SPN	Service Principal Name
SQL	Structured Query Language
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
TOTP	Time-based One-time Password algorithm

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

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

XML	Extensible Markup Language
XSS	cross-site scripting