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'''[[Data_aggregator|Data aggregator]]:''' The point at which data from Veloopti Agents is received into the Veloopti SaaS instance.
:''The data aggregator was located in Australia and all agents around the world sent their data there.''
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'''Action:''' A command or script that runs locally on a computer by the Veloopti Agent. See [[:Category:Action|Action]] for more articles.
:''In one command Luke ran 'apt-get install sl' on all Debian computers and 'yum -y install sl' on all Redhat Linux computers. Now he just had to wait for someone to get the wrong directory.''
'''[[Agent controller|Agent controller]]:''' The point at which data from Veloopti Agents is received into the Veloopti SaaS instance.
:''The agent controller was located in Australia and all agents around the world sent their data there.''
'''Aggregation''' Aggregation is the process in which information is gathered and then viewed in a summary form
'''API''' A method that allows data to be sent to Veloopti through a Veloopti agent.
:''Even sending a million data points per hour through the API didn't impact the server computer all that much.''
'''Argument:''' An exchange of words between people with diametrically opposed views who communicate asynchronously.
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'''Breadcrumbs:''' A navigation scheme that remembers the order of items web pages that you previous viewed.
:''And Hansel said to Gretel: "Let us drop these bread crumbs so that together we find our way home".''
'''Bubble:''' A visual indication that a user has received a [[Task bubble|Task]] or a [[Message bubble|Message]].:''The bubble let Johnny know that there was a task for the server admnistrators administrators to perform.''
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'''Computer:''' You don't know what a computer is and yet here you are?
'''Context options:''' Things that can be performed on multiple selected item items (nodes, policies, users and events) in the Results Panel.
:''George changed all of the root passwords once per week by selecting them and using the 'Action' context option on the DVL linux distros as this was company policy.''
'''Custom event properties:''' Properties of an event that are in addition to the base onesprovided by Veloopti.
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'''Dashboard:''' The left most menu item on the Veloopti GUI. See [[:Category:Dashboard|Dashboard]] for more articles.
:''David quickly moved to started with the dashboard menu item to start to determine what was going on with his application.''
'''Drill down:''' Refers to the process of viewing data at a increased level of detail (see [[#R|Roll up]])
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'''Event:''' A detectable or discernible occurrence that has relevance to the management of the IT Infrastructure which is observed and logged into Veloopti. See [[:Category:Event|Event]] for more articles.
:''Every time someone used the sudo command on a Linux server an event was recordedin Veloopti.''
'''Event Category:''' [[Glossary_of_acronyms#I|ITIL]] Standard categorisation based on the significance of an event: Information; Warning or Exception.
:''The backup failure event had been open for 15 days which is probably why Ted was worried when the server [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Screen_of_Death blue screened].''
'''Event storm:''' Event storms occur when a single or large number of servers nodes throughout the enterprise generate many events within a small period of time.:''After they received one million SMTP trap events it triggered the event storm rule that stopped them generating from seeing more events. At this point Mildred though she probably could have set the threshold a little lower.''
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'''Feedback:''' This The area of the Veloopti web GUI that shows feedback from the Veloopti application.
:''The spinny icon was showing that events were still loading. It was at this point in time that Fred was questioning her wisdom in selecting so many of them.''
'''Filter:''' Used to restrict or expand the events in the result panel.
:'' After Bob filtered out all of the Exchange events for the server there was nothing to be seeseen.''
'''Filter toggle:''' A toggle that hides and reveals the filter selectionfrom view.
:''Janet always hid the filter so there was more screen real estate for the events.''
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'''Granularity:''' Data granularity refers to how many data points are stored for a metric for a particular period time ''i.e.'' one every second; one every five minutes, ''etc..''
:''The electricity bill total doesn't provide sufficient granularity to know how much was consumed on Tuesday the 10th of May.''
'''Global options:''' Icons that represent an action independent to the items in the results pane.
:''On the [[User view|users page view]] one of the global options is to add a new user.''
'''Graph:''' A graphical representation of data in which the data is represented by dots joined together with lines.
'''Group:''' A group is a hierarchical collection of items that are arranged together to enable the easy management of the items that it contains.
::*'''Server Node Group:''' contains serversnodes
::*'''Policy Group:''' contains policies
::*'''User Group:''' contains users
:''The network device was rebooting every hour, but nobody knew because it was redundant.''
'''Node:''' Either a Server [[Glossary of terms#C|computer]] or a Network Device[[Glossary of terms#N|network device]]. See [[:Category:NodeNodes|Node]] for more articles.
:''The Gargoyle router has a Linux OS and is a node that can have a Veloopti agent installed on it.''
'''Notification:''' Whenever an event informs someone that it has occurred , either through emailor SMS. See [[:Category:Notification|Notification]] for more articles.
:''I liked to receive a notification every time that Rowan logged on because more often than not the server rebooted afterwards.''
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'''Object:''' An distinct item in Veloopti that has properties; ''i.e.'' a Servernode, Policypolicy, User user or Eventevent.
'''Organisation:''' Servers Nodes that are grouped together into a single entity. The entity has users who are given permissions over the things that Veloopti make available. Each Organisation is limited to a single invoice per billing cycle. See [[:Category:Organisation|Organisation]] for more articles.
:''After looking at the Apache web servers for Ford Motor Company, Edith then switched organisations to look at Mazda's.''
'''Outage:''' The suppression of notification notifications during specific time windows. See [[:Category:Outage|Outage]] for more articles.
:''After Dan received another notification that the backup server was rebooted during the night he thought that it was high time to put the node in into outage at during that time so he wouldn't get woken up again.''
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'''Path:''' A string of numbers and letters separated with one or more full stops (dot) that represent the metric or event and its related hierarchy. Also called a dot notation.
:''The path of the event was: "api.webpages.homepage.aboutus.pageload" which meant that the About Us web page was having issues.''
'''Recursive:''' see [[#R|recursive]]
'''Results panel:''' The box on the right hand side of the webpage Veloopti web GUI that is populated depending upon the menu item selected.
:''Clicking on the events menu item populates individual events into the results panel.''
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'''Server:''' An operating system instancethat provides services to other [[Glossary of terms#C|computers]].:''An operating system instance is called a server as applications run inside of it - just liker like a client.''
'''Sidebar Navigation:'''
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'''Task:''' Something that a user must perform to allow permit further functionality in Veloopti to continue to run to the full capacity. See [[:Category:Task|Task]] for more articles.
:''After the agent was installed the task to approve the server in the organisation was required.''
'''Triage Circuit:''' A collection of commands that run in a policy when a threshold breach or condition match is detected
:''Triage circuits were are yet to be implemented in Veloopti and everyone was is waiting for them'''
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'''User:''' A person with a valid logon to Veloopti and access the your organisation. See [[:Category:User|User]] for more articles.:''There were twenty five Veloopt users in the organisation and fortunately there was no cost to adding more'''
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'''Veloopti Agent:''' A software application written by Veloopti that runs on an Operating System a [[Glossary of terms#O|operating system]] and performs monitoring of the computer. See [[:Category:Agent|Agent]] for more articles.
:''Peter installed the Veloopti agent onto his Linux media server at home.''
'''Veloopti Agent Sentinel:''' A software component that runs on an Operating System a [[Glossary of terms#O|operating system]] and monitors the Veloopti Agent.:''After detecting that the Veloopti Agent was consuming too much CPU it was stopped bu the Veloopti Agent Sentinelagent sentinel.''
'''Veloopti WebGUI:''' The web front end that users logon to to view their Veloopti monitoring information.:''Alexa logged onto Veloopti Web GUI to see how her applications were performing.''
'''View options:''' Changes the results panel from viewing the items in either a item compressed list view, item expanded list view or group view.:''Ruby noticed that the uncompressed view didn't show much, as many items on one page so she changed to the compressed view using the view options.''
'''Virtual command prompt:''' A command/terminal session on a Server that can be initiated from the Server. You will be prompted for a username/password combination that has rights on the Server and the session will have the same rights as the username/password combination.