Glossary

Appointment

An Appointment is a private or public event defined on a calendar, possibly including other users and information (location, meeting rooms).

Attendee

An Attendee is a user (external or internal) that is part of an appointment.

Component

A Component is one of the basic elements of Carbonio; it is a high-level description of a functionality. A more technical description of the functionality, including the software packages required is provided by Role.

Domain Certificate

A Domain Certificate is a SSL certificate that is valid for a unique domain. You need one domain certificate only if you host multiple domains in the same Carbonio infrastructure.

Infrastructure Certificate

An SSL certificate that is valid for a whole Carbonio infrastructure.

Node

A Node is one server or VM on which one or more Roles are installed.

Regular User

Regular Users can access all the modules of Carbonio, but not the Carbonio Admin Panel. Hence, they can read mail, create and share documents, plan meetings and event, share and manage e-mail addresses and address books, and much more.

Rights

A Right is a privilege granted to an account, which allows to manage other users.

Role

In Carbonio, a Role is a functionality that is considered atomic and consists of one or more packages.

Shared Account

A Shared Account is an account that can be accessed by multiple users.

Smart Link

A Smart Link is a generated URL that, while composing an e-mail, replaces an attachment that exceeds the maximum allowed size on either the sender or receiver side. The receiver will be able to retrieve the attachment by clicking the URL.

Wildcard Certificate

An SSL certificate that is valid for one domain and all of its subdomains. For example, a wildcard certificate issued for domain *.example.com is valid for all subdomains, including mail.example.com, www.example.com, blog.example.com, and so on.

Administrator

An Administrator is any regular user that can access the Carbonio Admin Panel. Depending on the permission they have, they can play different Roles and can carry out different activities, for example a Domain Administrator can manage all domain-related tasks, while a Global Administrator can effectively manage the whole Carbonio infrastructure.

HSM

The Hierarchical Storage Management allows to move data between different stores according to policies defined by the Administrator.

Primary Volume

The Primary store is the main storage device of Carbonio. Here all data are placed when they arrive (e-mail messages) or are created (documents, contacts, and other items). It is usually a fast but expensive device, since its purpose is the everyday operations of Carbonio users.

Secondary Volume

The Secondary Volume is an additional storage device used by Carbonio. Its purpose is to store older items and data, which are seldomly accessed. It is a slow storage device