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*Description*: In Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, use "ActiveMQ Artemis" only when describing the technology used to implement the built-in messaging for JBoss EAP.
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*Description*: _Application Streams_ are multiple versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux user-space components that are delivered and updated more frequently than the core operating system packages. Application Streams can be packaged as RPM packages, modules, or Software Collections. Do not confuse Application Streams with "AppStream", the repository through which Application Streams and other components are distributed.
*Description*: The _AppStream repository_ distributes RHEL content as Application Streams and other components. Do not confuse the AppStream repository with the Application Streams that it distributes.
*Description*: Within a subnet of an Ethernet network, hosts use the Address Resolution Protocol (_ARP_) to discover the Media Access Control (MAC) address that is associated with an IPv4 address. In IPv6 networks, the Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) provides the functionality of ARP.
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*Description*: A 64-bit version of the ARM architecture. Use this term for OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) attributes, Kubernetes, Operators, APIs, and CLI objects. Use this format in general sentences when referring to OCP features.
*Description*: In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the _BaseOS repository_ contains the core set of the underlying operating system functionality that provides the foundation for all installations.
*Description*: _Basic HTTP authentication_, or _Basic authentication_, is an authorization scheme that uses HTTP to send login credentials encoded in Base64.
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*Description*: In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, _Boolean dependencies_ are Boolean expressions such as `if`, `and`, `or`, and other expressions that are used in the `Requires`, `Conflicts`, and `Weak` dependency directives. Boolean dependencies are also known as _Rich dependencies_.
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*Description*: In Red Hat Enterpise Linux, the _CodeReady Linux Builder repository_ provides additional packages for use by developers. Red Hat does not support packages included in the CodeReady Linux Builder repository. Do not use a shortened form of this term. Always mention that packages in this repository are unsupported.
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*Description*: A _codebase_ is a complete collection of source code for a software component, application, or system. Write as shown: one word.
*Description*: In Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, the _deployment-scannersubsystem_ is used to configure scanners to check for applications to deploy. In general text, write in lowercase as two words separated by a hyphen. Use "Deployment Scanners subsystem" when referring to the `deployment-scanner` subsystem in titles and headings. When writing the term in its heading form, ensure that you include a plural 's'.
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*Description*: In Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, the _deployment-scannersubsystem_ is used to configure scanners to check for applications to deploy. In general text, write in lowercase as two words separated by a hyphen. Use "Deployment Scanners subsystem" when referring to the `deployment-scanner` subsystem in titles and headings. When writing the term in its heading form, ensure that you include a plural 's'.
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*Description*: In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a _directory server_ centralizes user identity and application information. It provides an operating system-independent, network-based registry for storing application settings, user profiles, group data, policies, and access control information. Each resource on the network is considered an object by the directory server. Information about a particular resource is stored as a collection of attributes associated with that resource or object.
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*Description*: Use _DNF Automatic_ to refer to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux command-line interface suited for automatic and regular package updates.
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*Description*: In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a _domain controller (DC)_ is a host that responds to security authentication requests within a domain and controls access to resources in that domain.
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*Description*: In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a _domain controller (DC)_ is a host that responds to security authentication requests within a domain and controls access to resources in that domain. IdM servers work as DCs for the IdM domain. A DC authenticates users, stores user account information and enforces security policy for a domain. When a user logs into a domain, the DC authenticates and validates their credentials and either allows or denies access.
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*Description*: In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a _file trigger directive_ is a special form of a transaction scriptlet that runs conditionally when matching files from other packages are installed or uninstalled.
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*Description*: The _firewalld_ service provides a dynamically managed firewall with support for zones that define the trust level of network connections or interfaces. Write as shown (all lowercase).
*Description*: In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, _interpreted code_ is source code that runs step-by-step, without prior transformations by a language interpreter or a language virtual machine.
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*Description*: In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a _module_ is a collection of packages representing a logical unit: an application, a language stack, a database, or a set of tools. These packages are built, tested, and released together.
*Description*: In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, a _module profile_ is a list of recommended packages to be installed together for a particular use case such as for a server, client, development, or minimal installation. These package lists can contain packages outside the module stream, usually from the BaseOS repository or the dependencies of the stream.
*Description*: In Red Hat Enterprise Linux, _module streams_ are filters that can be thought of as virtual repositories in the AppStream physical repository. Module streams represent versions of the Application Stream components.
*Description*: _Natively compiled code_ is code written in a programming language that compiles to machine code with a resulting binary executable file. Such code can be run standalone.
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*Description*: _RPM_ is the recursive initialism for the _RPM Package Manager_. RPM manages files in the RPM format. Those files are referred to as "RPM packages". Even though RPM packages are known informally as `rpm` files, do not use this informal term in Red Hat documentation to avoid confusion with the command name.
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