==== Terminology ====
^ Term      ^ Definition ^
|**Group/Company**| An organizational unit for grouping systems. It will also used for isolation purpose.|
|**System**| An SAP system as per SAP terminology, commonly identified by a trigram, its SID (System ID)|
|**Connector**| Defines how to connect to a system (technical settings for remote connection: host, credentials, etc…)|
|**Monitor**| A “check” dedicated to a given area/module in SAP (disk, logs, …). Can be configured with a set of filters, thresholds, severities, etc…|
|**Profile**| A configuration template composed of one or several monitors, defining how a set of components will be monitored|
|**Plugin**| A connection to a external solution/third party, for sending alarms, metrics or reports|
|**Snapshot**| A backup of the entire monitoring configuration and application settings|
|**Alarm**| An event generated by a monitor when a problem is detected with a monitored component|
|**Metric**| A data point reflecting a status or a measure of a component|
|**Surveillance table**| A table of rules within a monitor, used to configure the monitoring of a component|
|**Tag**| It is a "label" that can be assigned - currently - to Systems only|
|**Agent**| This is an instance of Pro.Monitor configured to act as a local monitoring unit, connected to a Primary instance |