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Page fault

This monitors the number of page faults per second. This rule by default will report full load when the number of page faults a second are greater than 100 and will report no load when the number of page faults a second are equal to zero.

Page swap

This monitors number of Page Swap operations per second. This rule by default will report full load when the number of page swaps are greater than 100 and will report no load when the number of page swaps a second are equal to zero.

Pass-through authentication

This allows local usernames and passwords to be automatically forwarded to servers to allow users to log in to their applications. This reduces the number of logon windows a user will face. The main drawback of this feature is that pass-through authentication is enabled, meaning automatic client update will not work.

PassThrough:

See Independent Computing Architecture PassThrough

Performance Monitor (PerfMon)

This is a graphical tool incorporated into Windows NT Terminal Server Edition and Windows 2000 family of servers. It gathers and examines information about server activity by examining system objects or components. Objects are server components that possess a set of measurable properties.

PN:

See Program Neighborhood

Pn.src

This program configures settings in relation to application sets and contains two sections: Program Neighborhood and Application Set. The Program Neighborhood section defines the application sets. The Application Set section defines all configuration information for those defined sets.

Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)

A serial communication protocol most commonly used to connect a personal computer to an Internet Service Provider (ISP). PPP is the successor to Serial Line Internet Protocol (SLIP) and may be used over both synchronous and asynchronous circuits. Also, PPP is a full-duplex, connectionless protocol that supports many different types of links. The advantages of PPP made it de facto standard for dial-up connections.

Port

Specifies the physical LPT or COM on the client device that the printer is attached to. This is generally listed as LPT1, but it can vary.

Power users

Power Users will utilize more resources than Typical Users. Power Users are depicted as being more computer savvy, running more applications at one time, cutting and pasting between remote and local applications and generally stressing the system more. One Power User is equivalent to two Typical Users in terms of processor utilization and RAM consumption. The exact processor, RAM and network bandwidth requirements cannot be accurately determined until a baseline using at least five users, has been established. Citrix recommends an additional 8MB for each Power User and 4MB of RAM for each Typical User.

PPP:

See Point-to-Point Protocol

Print device

The physical printer that produces the print jobs. A print job is the binary translation of the file you are printing into a language the printer understands.

Print driver

The software used by the operating system to interpret an application's print commands and convert these into a language that the printer will use to produce a print job. A print driver must be installed on a MetaFrame server in the farm that matches the printer driver installed on the client workstation. The print driver should then be replicated to all servers in the server farm that this client will connect to. If the name of the print driver installed in the MetaFrame farm matches the client print driver name verbatim, a print driver mapping must be created. Deciding which printer drivers to support in a MetaFrame environment can be a tedious job. Some print drivers can cause server-side problems when they are used to access client printers.

Print queue

The holding area for print jobs waiting to be printed on a print device. These queues are generally located on a print server and accessed in Windows environments by a printer share.

Printer

The Windows icon you See in the Printers applet in the Control Panel. This icon is a logical reference to a print device attached to the local system bus via a communications port.

Printer mapping

Printer mapping allows clients to use their local printers in remote applications, just like they would with local applications. Printer mappings can also be forced to the default printer on the client by checking the box labeled Default To Main Client Printer.

Printer name

Specifies a logical name (generally the type of printer) that you are auto-creating.

Printer share

A logical printer on a Windows server that allows multiple users to print to the same physical print device. This device can be attached directly to the network or to a communications port on the server.

Program Neighborhood (PN) client:

See Citrix Win32 Program Neighborhood client

Program Neighborhood (PN) folders

These allow you to publish applications in a logical folder structure, similar to the logical layout of a hard drive partition. You can group common applications in their own folders, so when a user connects to an application set, he or she can more easily navigate the list of published applications.

Public Key-Private Key encryption

This uses one key to encrypt the data and one key to decrypt the data. The public key is used during the encryption process. Once the information is encrypted, it is sent to the recipient who then uses the Private Key to decrypt the data. The public key in this scenario can be transmitted freely across public lines. No data are contained in the public key that can compromise the Private key. If an unauthorized user was to obtain the public key, he or she could only encrypt data and not decrypt it. This means that since the Private Key is used to decrypt your data, it must be kept secure at all times. The draw back to Public Key-Private key is its speed. Though it is considered more secure than symmetric key encryption, it is also slower.

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