ADA     Absolute Destination Agent
 ADEST   Absolute Destination
 AIS     Application interface specification
 AMC     Alarm Management Controller
 AMF     Availability Management Framework
 API     Application Programming Interface
 ARG     Argument
 ARP     Address Resolution Protocol
 ATCA    Advanced Telecommunications Architecture
 AvA     Availability Agent
 AvD     Availability Director
 AvM     Availability Manager
 AvND    Availability Node Director
 AvSv    Availability Service
 BAM     BOM Access Manager
 BGP     Border Gateway Protocol
 BOM     Bill of Material
 CAM     Configuration Access Manager
 CB      Control Block
 CE      Command Execution
 CEF     Command Execution Functions
 CGL     Carrier Grade Linux
 CKPT    Checkpoint Service
 CLA     Cluster Membership Agent
 CLC     Component Life Cycle
 CLI     Command Line Interface
 CLM     Cluster Membership Service
 CONF    Configuration
 COTS	 Commercial-Off-The-Shelf components
 CPA     Checkpoint Agent
 CPD     Checkpoint Director
 CPND    Checkpoint Node Director
 CPSv    Checkpoint Service
 CPU     Central Processing Unit
 CSI     Component Service Instance
 CSIs    Component Service Instances
 DAT     Domain Alarm Table
 DEST    Destination
 DHCP    Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
 DIMI	 Diagnostic Management Instrument
 DLSv	 Distributed Logging Service
 DN      Distinguished Name
 DRBD    Distributed Replicated Block Device
 DRT	 Domain Reference Table
 DTA     Distributed Trace Agents
 DTS     Distributed Trace Server
 DTSv    Distributed Tracing Service
 EAM	 External Active Monitoring
 EDA     Event Distribution Agent
 EDP     Encode/Decode Program
 EDS     Event Distribution Server
 EDSv    Event Distribution Service
 EDU     Encode/Decode Utility
 EE	 Execution Environment
 Enum    Enumeration type
 ESMI    Extended Structure of Management Information
 EVT     Event service
 FRU     Field Replaceable Unit
 FSM     Finite State Machine
 FRU	 Field Replaceable Unit
 FUF     Firmware Upgrade Facility
 FUMI	 Firmware Upgrade Management Instrument
 GLA     Global Locking Agent
 GLD     Global Locking Director
 GLND    Global Locking Node Director
 GLSv    Global Lock Service
 HA      High Availability
 HCD     HPI Chassis Director
 hdl     Handle
 HLFM 	 High Availability File Manager
 HISv    Hardware Interface Service
 HPI     Hardware Platform Interface
 HPL     HPI Adaption Private Library
 HPM     Hardware Platform Manager
 IAM	 Internal Active Monitoring
 IANA    Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
 ID      Identifier
 IDR	 Inventory Data Repository
 idx     Index
 IfA     Interface Agents
 IfD     Interface Director
 IfND    Interface Node Director
 IfSv    Interface Service
 IFSvDD  Interface Service (IP virtualization)
 IM	 Information Model
 IMG	 Intelligent Management Controller
 IMM	 Information Model Management
 IP      Internet Protocol
 IPMB    Intelligent Platform Management Bus
 LCK     Locking Service
 LDAP    Leightweight Directory Access Protocol
 LEAP    Layered Environment for Accelerated Portability
 LFM     Local Fault Manager
 LOG	 Log Service
 MAA     Managament Access Agent
 MAPI    Messaging Application Progamming Interface
 MAS     Management Access Server
 MASv    Management Access Service
 MBCA    Message Based Checkpoint Agent
 MBCSv   Message Based Checkpoint Service
 MCS 	 Message-based Checkpoint Service
 MDS     Message Distribution Service
 MDSDEST Message Distribution Service Destination
 MIB     Management Information Base
 MIBLIB  MIB Library
 MPLS    Multiprotocol Label Switching
 MQA     Message Queue Agent
 MQD     Message Queue Director
 MQND    Message Queue Node Director
 MQSv    Message Queue Service
 MSG     Messaging Service
 MTU     Maximum Transfer Unit
 NA      Not Applicable
 NCS 	 Node Cluster Service
 NCS 	 Netplane Core Services
 NID     Node Initialization Daemon
 OAA     Object Access Agent
 OID     Object Identifier
 OS      Operating System
 Param   Parameter
 PC      Process Constellation
 PCAP    Payload Construction and Availability Service
 PCN     Persistent Store Client Name
 PCON    Process Constellation
 PCS     Platform Control Software
 PDU     Protocol Data Unit
 PICMG	 PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group
 POSIX   Portable Operating System Interface
 PLM	 Platform Management
 PM	 Passive Monitoring
 PMS	 Platform Management Service
 PR	 Physical Resource
 PSA     Persistent Store Agent
 PSS     Persistent Store Server
 PSSv    Persistent Store Service
 PWE     Private World Environment
 RDA     Role Distribution Agent
 RDE     Role Distribution Entity
 RDF     Role Distribution Framework
 RDN     Relative Distinguished Name
 RDR     Resource Data Records
 REQ     Request
 RFC     Request for Comments
 RPM     Red Hat Package Manager
 RPT     Resource Presence Table
 RSP     Response
 SAF     Service Availability Forum
 SAI	 Service Availablity Interface
 SCAP    System Construction and Availability Process
 SDAM    System Description Access Manager
 SDP     System Description Parser
 SE-API  Single Entry API
 SEL     System Event Log
 SG      Service Group
 SI      Service Instance
 SMI     Structure of Management Information
 SMP     Symmetric Multiprocessing
 SNMP    System Network Management Protocol
 SP      System Provisioning
 SPCN    System Provisioning Client's Name
 SP-MIB  System-provisioned Management Information Base
 SPT     Shelf, Port Type
 SRMA    System Resource Monitoring Agent
 SRMND   System Resource Monitoring Node Director
 SRMSv   System Resource Monitoring Service
 SS      Subsystem
 SSU     Simple Software Upgrade
 SU      Service Unit
 SUND    Simple Software Upgrade Node
 TFTP    Trivial File Transfer Protocol
 TIPC    Transparent Inter-process Communication
 uns     Unsigned
 USRBUF  User Buffer
 VDA     Virtual Destination Agent
 VDEST   Virtual Destination
 VDS     Virtual Destination Server
 VIP     Virtual IP Address
 VMM	 Virtual Machine Monitor
 VPN     Virtual Private Network
 XML     Extended Markup Language