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  2. Ansible (software) - Wikipedia

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    The Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) is a REST API, web service, and web-based interface (application) designed to make Ansible more accessible to people with a wide range of IT skillsets. It is a platform composed of multiple components including developer tooling, an operations interface, as well as an Automation Mesh to enable automation ...

  3. Ansible - Wikipedia

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    Ursula K. Le Guin first used the word ansible in her 1966 novel Rocannon's World. [1] [4] Etymologically, the word was a contraction of answerable, as the device allowed its users to receive answers to their messages in a reasonable amount of time, even over interstellar distances.

  4. Timeout (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Specific examples include: In the Microsoft Windows and ReactOS [2] command-line interfaces, the timeout command pauses the command processor for the specified number of seconds. [3] [4] In POP connections, the server will usually close a client connection after a certain period of inactivity (the timeout period). This ensures that connections ...

  5. Turing completeness - Wikipedia

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    For example, one cannot write a tool that entirely protects programmers from writing infinite loops or protects users from supplying input that would cause infinite loops. One can instead limit a program to executing only for a fixed period of time ( timeout ) or limit the power of flow-control instructions (for example, providing only loops ...

  6. Command (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a command is a directive to a computer program to perform a specific task. It may be issued via a command-line interface or as input to a network service as part of a network protocol, or as an event triggered in a graphical user interface. Specifically, the term command is used in imperative programming languages.

  7. Semaphore (programming) - Wikipedia

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    Premature task termination: Mutexes may also provide deletion safety, where the task holding the mutex cannot be accidentally deleted. [citation needed] Termination deadlock: If a mutex-holding task terminates for any reason, the OS can release the mutex and signal waiting tasks of this condition.

  8. Runbook - Wikipedia

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    Runbook automation (RBA) [8] is the ability to define, build, orchestrate, manage, and report on workflows that support system and network operational processes. Areas of a business ideal for IT automation are Operations Teams, Service Desk, Network Operations Center's (NOC's), Cloud Operations, Integrations, and Automation Center of Excellence (CoE).

  9. Job control (Unix) - Wikipedia

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    Multi-process tasks come about because processes may create additional child processes, and a single shell command may consist of a pipeline of multiple communicating processes. For example, a command to select lines containing the text "title", sort these alphabetically, and display the result in a pager .