Balancer glossary
Use these terms when you configure Balancer or discuss your setup with your NetActuate account manager.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Account | Resource and membership boundary |
| Organization | Separate membership context that can manage associated accounts |
| User | Identity with account or organization memberships |
| Context | Account or organization selected for your authenticated session |
| API key | Credential with an access mode, optional expiry and revocation state |
| HTTP load balancer | Container for HTTP application groups, domains and routes |
| Group | Domain and route configuration with group defaults |
| Route | Ordered request handling selection with policy overrides |
| Upstream group | Collection of origin targets |
| Origin | Public IP or hostname that serves application traffic |
| L4 load balancer | TCP or UDP listener and origin selection |
| Source allow policy | Source matching policy evaluated before block and request budgets |
| WAF allow policy | Bypass for later WAF evaluation |
| Rate-limit bucket | Request budget keyed by configured request fields |
| Desired state | Saved configuration requested through the API |
| Applied state | Configuration currently used to handle traffic |
| Version | Resource concurrency value used by update preconditions |
| Purge checkpoint | Scoped cache change that takes effect after publication reaches the request path |
| ACME | Certificate issuance workflow with domain validation |
| mTLS | TLS that uses client certificates for authentication |