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Naming conventions and acronyms

What

FileWave Knowledge Base articles will sometimes use acronyms, and occasionally we may miss giving detail or context, but we try to always use the full name once or explain the term.

When/Why

This will be a list of terms you can refer to when unsure.

How

Alphabetical list of terms:

A

  • Anywhere API (v2) - The second RESTful API that is used by FileWave Anywhere and usually commands are on TCP 443 unless you have changed the port that FileWave Anywhere operates on.

B

  • Booster - A Linux, macOS, or Windows system running software that caches software deployments for macOS and Windows clients.

C

  • Cloudv1 - Our original hosted server environment which is running in AWS with Linux based VMs.
  • Cloudv2 - Our newer hosted server environment which is running in AWS with Docker/Kubernetes.
  • Command Line API (v1) - The initial RESTful API for FileWave. Commands happen on TCP 20443 and 20445.

F

  • Fileset - A term for the item in FileWave that is a bundle of content that can contain files, policies, and profiles. In FileWave Central it is called Fileset and in FileWave Anywhere it is called a Payload. The two terms Fileset and Payload are really the same item type.
  • FileWave Admin - Now called FileWave Central.
  • FileWave Anywhere - The web-based administration tool.
  • FileWave Central - The native administration tool that runs on macOS and Windows.
  • FileWave WebAdmin - Now called FileWave Anywhere.
  • FW - FileWave the company.

H

  • Hosted Customer - Any customer where FileWave runs the server itself in either our Cloudv1 or Cloudv2 infrastructure.

I

  • IVS - Imaging Virtual Server - A Linux Linux-based used for Windows imaging. The server sits on your network to capture and deploy images.

O

  • On-Premise - The term used to refer to running a FileWave Server on your own network. 

P

  • Payload - A term for the item in FileWave that is a bundle of content that can contain files, policies, and profiles. In FileWave Central it is called Fileset and in FileWave Anywhere it is called a Payload. The two terms Fileset and Payload are really the same item type.

R

  • RESTful API - Another name for the Command Line API (v1) and you may hear it referred to as either name because originally there was a single API and it was RESTful. Now there are 2 different APIs and both are RESTful so it makes more sense to not call it the RESTful API. 
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