broker (aqd)

The backend which the aq client communicates with and the owner of all object and production templates.

sandbox

A working area owned by a specific user and associated with a group of systems.

archetype

The highest possible grouping of hosts into distinctly seperate types, analogous to a QWG site.

domain

A high level grouping of hosts eg. prod

personality

Analogous to QWG machine types, describes the services required but not the instance (selected using plenary template information).

service

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feature

A chunk of code for configuring a specific thing, similar to Puppet recipes.

cluster

A group of hosts related in some way, hosts can be part of multiple clusters?

plenary

Equivalent of SCDB hardware/machine + the service/personality. Typically generated on the fly from an external source.