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SOM

See Also: SOC

  1. [software] Acronym for server object manager. A Windows service that manages a set of server objects that are distributed across one or more server object container machines, or the machine on which this service is running. When an application makes a connection to an ArcGIS Server over a LAN, it is making a connection to the SOM.