Terms and Abbreviations

The following conventions are used in the Manual:

Convention

Description

Bold

Names of buttons and other elements of the graphical user interface (GUI), and required user input that must be entered exactly as given in the guide.

Green and bold

Names of Doctor Web products and components.

Hyperlinks to topics and web pages.

Monospace

Code examples, input to the command line and application output.

Italics

Placeholders which represent information that must be supplied by a user. For command-line input, it indicates parameter values.

Capital letters

Names of keys and key sequences.

Plus sign ('+')

Indicates a combination of keys. For example, ALT+F1 means to hold down the ALT key while pressing the F1 key.

Exclamation mark

A warning about potential errors or any other important comment.

To define directories, where the suite components are installed, the following conventions are used: %bin_dir, %etc_dir and %var_dir. Depending on the OS, these symbols refer to the following directories:

for Linux and Solaris:

%bin_dir = /opt/drweb/

%etc_dir = /etc/drweb/

%var_dir = /var/drweb/

for FreeBSD:

%bin_dir = /usr/local/drweb/

%etc_dir = /usr/local/etc/drweb/

%var_dir = /var/drweb/

The following conventions are used in the Manual:

Abbreviation

Description

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

CIDR

Classless Inter-Domain Routing

DEB

Extension for package files for software distribution in Debian (and others used dpkg)

DNS

Domain Name System

HTML

HyperText Markup Language

IP

Internet Protocol

IPv4

Internet Protocol, version 4

IPv6

Internet Protocol, version 6

IPC

Inter-Process Communication

MD5

Message Digest 5 algorithm

OS

Operating System

PID

Process IDentifier in UNIX based OS

POSIX

Portable Operating System Interface for Unix

RFC

Request for Comments

RPM

Package files format (and extension) for Red Hat Package Manager

SSL

Secure Socket Layers protocol

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

TLS

Transport Layer Security protocol

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

UUID

Unique User IDdentifier

XML

eXtensible Markup Language

The following abbreviations are used in chapter about component Dr.Web Console for UNIX File Servers:

Abbreviation

Description

CGI

Common Gateway Interface

JSON

JavaScript Object Notation