Glossary

S

SCA

Device based solution that expands the transaction capacity of any Web site by 

offloading the processor intensive tasks related to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 

traffic.

Secure Content 

See 

SCA

.

Accelerator

Secure Socket Layer  See 

SSL Services Module

.

Services Module

seed

1. A CDP enabled device used as a starting point for discovery. For example, by 

adding a seed device (or set of seed devices), the neighbors of the seed device 

are discovered using CDP. 

2. A device that is not CDP enabled, or that does not support CDP. For example, 

if the device you want to manage does not support CDP, you must set that device 

as a seed. You can specify multiple seed devices to:

Shorten the initial discovery period

Discover  disconnected  networks if you want to discover devices across 

links on which you have disabled CDP or where the devices are outside the 

firewall

Discover devices that are not CDP enabled

server farm

A server farm or pool is a collection of servers that contain the same content.

Server Load 

See 

SLB

.

Balancer

service

A destination location where a piece of content resides physically. Also referred 

to in general terms for this release as including content rules, owners, virtual 

servers, real servers, and so on.

service chassis

A grouping of real services by common physical servers

.

Simple Message 

See 

SMTP

.

Transfer Protocol

User Guide for the CiscoWorks Hosting Solution Engine 1.8.1

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