<%NUMBERING1%>.<%NUMBERING2%>.<%NUMBERING3%> PRTG Manual: List of Abbreviations
See below for a list of abbreviations used in this documentation.
ACL: access control list (ACL)
ADO: ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
ADSL: asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL)
AES: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
AET: Application Entity Title (AET)
AIM: AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)
AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX)
API: application programming interface (API)
ARP: Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
AWS: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
BA: Basic authentication (BA)
BMC: Baseboard Management Controller (BMC)
CA: certificate authority (CA)
CBQoS: Class Based Quality of Service (CBQoS)
CGI: Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
CIFS: Common Internet File System (CIFS)
CIM: Common Information Model (CIM)
CLI: command-line interface (CLI)
CLR: common language runtime (CLR)
CoS: Class of Service (CoS)
CRC: cyclic redundancy check (CRC)
CSS: cascading style sheets (CSS)
CSV: comma-separated values (CSV)
DAG: Database Availability Group (DAG)
DBMS: database management system (DBMS)
DC: domain controller (DC)
DCS: domain components (DCS)
DES: Data Encryption Standard (DES)
DHCP: Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
DICOM: Digital Imaging and Communications (DICOM)
DN: distinguished name (DN)
DNS: Domain Name System (DNS)
DoS: denial of service (DoS)
DSCP: Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP)
EBS: Elastic Block Store (EBS)
EC2: Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
ECC: Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)
ELB: Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
EVA: Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA)
FAT: file allocation table (FAT)
FCP: Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP)
FCS: Frame Check Sequence (FCS)
FIPS: Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS)
FQDN: fully qualified domain name (FQDN)
FTP: File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
FTPS: FTP over SSL (FTPS)
GID: global ID (GID)
GSA: Google Search Appliance (GSA)
GUID: globally unique identifier (GUID)
HDD: hard disk drive (HDD)
HL7: Health Level 7 (HL7)
IAM: Identity and Access Management (IAM)
ICMP: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
ICPIF: Impairment Calculated Planning Impairment Factor (ICPIF)
IDE: integrated development environment (IDE)
iDRAC: Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC)
IIS: Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS)
iLO: HPE Integrated Lights Out (iLO)
IMAP: Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
IMM: Integrated Management Module (IMM)
I/O: input/output (I/O)
IOPS: input/output operations per second (IOPS)
IPFIX: Internet Protocol Flow Information Export (IPFIX)
IPMI: Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
IPsec: Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)
IRC: Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
iRMC: integrated Remote Management Controller (iRMC)
iSCSI: Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)
JSON: JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
L2L: LAN-to-LAN (L2L)
LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
LIF: logical interface (LIF)
LUN: logical unit number (LUN)
MAPI: Messaging Application Programming Interface (MAPI)
MD5: message-digest algorithm 5 (MD5)
MIB: Management Information Base (MIB)
MOS: mean opinion score (MOS)
MQTT: Message Queue Telemetry Transport (MQTT)
MSH: message header (MSH)
MSMQ: Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
MSP: managed service provider (MSP)
mutex: mutual exclusion (mutex)
MWL: Modality Worklist (MWL)
NAS: network-attached storage (NAS)
NAT: network address translation (NAT)
NFS: network file system (NFS)
NIC: network interface card (NIC)
NMAP: Network Mapper (Nmap)
NSA: Network Security Appliance (NSA)
NTFS: NTFS file system (NTFS)
NTLM: NT LAN Manager (NTLM)
OAuth2: Open Authorization 2 (OAuth2)
ODBC: Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
OID: object identifier (OID)
OLEDB: Object Linking and Embedding, Database (OLE DB)
OMSA: OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA)
ONTAPI: DATA ONTAP API (ONTAPI)
OSPF: Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
OU: organizational unit (OU)
P2P: Peer-to-Peer (P2P)
PACS: picture archiving and communication system (PACS)
PAP: Password Authentication Protocol (PAP)
PCRE: Perl Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE)
PDV: packet delay variation (PDV)
PEM: Privacy-Enhanced Mail (PEM)
PMPP: PRTG Mini Probe Protocol (PMPP)
POP3: Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3)
QNAP: Quality Network Appliance Provider (QNAP)
QoS: Quality of Service (QoS)
RADIUS: Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS)
RAID: redundant array of independent disks (RAID)
RDP: Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)
RDS: Relational Database Service (RDS)
regex: regular expression (regex)
REST: Representational State Transfer (REST)
RMON: Remote Monitoring (RMON)
RPC: remote procedure call (RPC)
RPM: revolutions per minute (RPM)
RTT: round-trip time (RTT)
SaaS: software as a service (SaaS)
SAN: storage area network (SAN)
SASL: Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL)
SCSI: Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
SCVMM: System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
SHA: Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA)
SID: Oracle System ID (SID)
SIP: Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
SLA: service level agreement (SLA)
S.M.A.R.T.: Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.)
SMB: server message block (SMB)
SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
SNI: Server Name Identification (SNI)
SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
SNR: signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)
SNS: Simple Notification Service (SNS)
SNTP: Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)
SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
SPA: Single Page Application (SPA)
SPAN: Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN)
SQL: Structured Query Language (SQL)
SQS: Simple Queue Service (SQS)
SRP: Secure Remote Password (SRP)
SSD: solid-state drive (SSD)
SSH: Secure Shell (SSH)
SSL: Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
SSO: single sign on (SSO)
SVC: switched virtual circuit (SVC)
TCP: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
TFTP: Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
TLS: Transport Layer Security (TLS)
ToS: Type of Service (ToS)
UAC: User Account Control (UAC)
UCS: Unified Computing System (UCS)
UDF: User-defined Function (UDF)
UDP: User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
UNC: Universal Naming Convention (UNC)
UPnP: Universal Plug and Play (UPnP)
UPS: uninterruptible power supplies (UPS)
UTC: Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
UUID: universally unique identifier (UUID)
VM: virtual machine (VM)
VNC: Virtual Network Computing (VNC)
VoIP: Voice over IP (VoIP)
WBEM: Web-based Enterprise Management (WBEM)
WMI: Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
WQL: Windows Management Instrumentation Query Language (WQL)
WSUS: Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
WWN: World Wide Name (WWN)
xFlow: xFlow (NetFlow, jFlow, sFlow, IPFIX)
XML: Extensible Markup Language (XML)
XSS: cross-site scripting (XSS)