Acronyms

NAME	DEFINITION
AMS	Adaptive Multichannel Source
CLI	Command-Line Interface
COTS	Commercial Off the Shelf
CSV	Comma-Separated Value
DPT	Differential Pressure Transmitter
ELK	Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana
FEP	Front End Processor
GOOSE	Generic Object Oriented Substation Event
GPS	Global Positioning System
GUI	Graphical User Interface
HIL	Hardware-in-the-loop
HMI	Human Machine Interface
HTTP	HyperText Transport Protocol
ICS	Industrial Control System
IDS	Intrusion Detection System
IED	Intelligent Electronic Device
I/O	Input/Output
IP	Internet Protocol
JSON	JavaScript Object Notation
KVM	Kernel-based Virtual Machine
NIC	Network Interface Card
NTP	Network Time Protocol
OS	Operating System
OPC	OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) for Process Control
OVS	Open vSwitch
PCAP	Packet Capture
QEMU	Quick Emulator
RTU	Remote Terminal Unit
SCADA	Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition
SCEPTRE	SCEPTRE (not an acronym)
SCP	Secure Copy
SEL	Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
SoH	State of Health
SSH	Secure Shell
TCP	Transmission Control Protocol
TDN	Trunked Data Network
UDP	User Datagram Protocol
VLAN	Virtual Local Area Network
VM	Virtual Machine
VNC	Virtual Network Computing

Terminology

NAME	DEFINITION
Admin Network	Network used to link together the headnode and all the computes nodes
Compute Node	A physical server that hosts virtual machines deployed in the environment
cURL	“see URL”, a command line tool for transferring data using various protocols, e.g., HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, etc.
Environment	The running deployed system of virtual machines and network
Experiment	A specific instantiation of a topology that is deployed using phēnix
Log Forwarding Agent	A program that runs on all deployed VMs to gather, collect, and ship logging information associated with SCEPTRE process logs, operating system logs, network connection statistics, and VM performance statistics
Headnode	Command and control computer that runs phēnix and minimega and monitor compute nodes
Metadata	User configuration files included in an experiment topology
minimega	A tool for launching and managing virtual machines. It is the underlying VM mangement software using by SCEPTRE
openvswitch	A multilayer virtual switch designed to enable massive network automation through programmatic extension, while still supporting standard management interfaces and protocols (e.g. NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, RSPAN, CLI, LACP, 802.1ag)
phēnix	Orchestration package that creates, deploys, and maintain experiments
phēnix Application	A process or service that runs on the deployed virtual machines
SCEPTRE Provider	Simulation of a real world process that provides process data to SCEPTRE field devices
SCEPTRE	SCEPTRE can’t be defined, it’s a way of life!
Solver	The physical process simulation software that supplies data to the provider interface
Topology	Collection of network definition files including yaml and metadata files
Trunked Data Network	A trunk used to move all the data from the experiment between the various compute nodes in the cluster