Glossary

Agent — infrality-agent, installed on a machine inside a network; sweeps it and reports to one board.

Attributed board — the board an agent draws on. Chosen on the dashboard or in ingestor.project_id; the dashboard’s choice wins.

API key — nk_…, what an agent presents to prove its organization. Shown once.

Board — one network or system, drawn: devices, connections, relations, zones, notes, documents. Called a project in the API.

Break-glass — an owner with a strong factor signing in when single sign-on is required and the provider is down.

Connection — a cable or a flow between two devices, or a relation between layers.

Folder — files boards inside a space; grants on it reach everything inside.

Grant — access to a board or folder for a person, a team or everyone in the organization, with a role and an optional end date.

Inferred edge — a router-to-host connection drawn by the layout rule, not observed.

Layer — physical, logical or security; read from an element’s colour.

Missed sweeps — how many sweeps of a device’s range did not see it. Nothing is ever deleted for it.

Organization — a company, or one client of a managed service provider. Owns boards, agents, keys and members.

Partial — a sweep that reached its time limit; what it found is filed.

Permission — view, comment, edit, export, share, operate, manage.

Relation — a connection with a kind: placement (runs on), depends (needs), security (protects), resilience (replicates to).

Restricted — a folder or board closed to everybody whose access comes from above it, except owners and admins.

Scan run — one sweep, with its counters and outcome.

Session — one sign-in, shared by every organization you belong to.

Space — where a board lives: your personal space or an organization.

Strong factor — an authenticator app or a security key. An emailed code is not one.

Sweep — one pass of an agent over its range.

Team — a group of an organization’s members.

Verified domain — an email domain the organization proved it controls, by DNS.

Version — the board as it stood after one editing session, a sweep, an import or a restore.

Zone — a network, site or host drawn as an area that groups devices.