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Glossary
Every term in bananana.dev, in a sentence or two.
- Agent
- The
bananana-nodeprogram on each node. The agent and the tray icon - Alert
- Something past a threshold (disk full, protection off, website down), shown on the dashboard and emailed. Alerts and email
- Approval
- The step that lets a device joined by code or key do more than report status. Approving devices
- Assignment
- A rule saying who gets a catalog app, required or optional. The app catalog
- Audit log
- The tamper-evident record of everything done. The audit log
- Automation
- A trigger, some devices, and steps that run by themselves. Automations
- Baseline
- The compliance rules for the company, a group or a role. Compliance
- Brain
- The one server that runs bananana.dev for your company and holds all its data.
- Catalog
- Your company's list of approved apps. The app catalog
- Check value
- Four characters the installer shows with your brain's name, so the person can confirm the code is really from you.
- Compliance score
- Passing checks out of passing and failing ones, for one device.
- Confirm it's you (step-up)
- Signing in again before powerful actions, if you haven't in 15 minutes.
- Deployment key
- One key that enrolls many devices, for deployment tools. Adding computers
- Detection
- Something Microsoft Defender found, with what it did about it.
- Device
- Any computer bananana.dev looks after. Same as node.
- Expected devices
- Serial numbers that approve themselves when they enroll. Approving devices
- Feature
- What a node allows: Monitor, Terminal, Files, Services control, Screen control. The node enforces it.
- Group
- A label on devices (Partners, Downtown) used for apps, rings, baselines, automations and people's scope.
- Install command
- One line that adds the computer it's pasted on. Adding computers
- Job
- A piece of work for a device that waits until it's online and retries on failure.
- My computers
- The computers you own, to open from anywhere. My computers and working from anywhere
- Node
- Any computer running the agent. Same as device.
- Onboarding code
- An 8-character code a person types into the public installer. Adding computers
- Owner (device)
- The person a device belongs to, by email.
- Owner (role)
- The top role, responsible for bananana.dev at your company.
- Relay
relay.bananana.dev, which passes encrypted messages between your brain and its devices without being able to read them.- Ring
- A wave of a rollout: Pilot, Early, Everyone. Rollouts and rings
- Role
- What a person may do. Users, roles and permissions
- Rollout
- An app or system update going out ring by ring. Rollouts and rings
- Scope
- Which devices a person may see and act on.
- Site
- Where a device is: an office, home, remote.
- Tamper Protection
- A Windows setting that stops apps (including bananana.dev) from weakening Defender. bananana.dev reports "Blocked" rather than working around it.
- Tray icon
- The bananana.dev icon by the clock on each computer. The agent and the tray icon