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LDAP Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Directory service protocol
designed to run over TCP/IP and across multiple platforms.
LDAP client Software used to request and view LDAP entries from an LDAP
Directory Server.
See Also browser.
LDAP Data Interchange
Format
See LDAP Data Interchange Format.
LDAP URL Provides the means of locating Directory Servers using DNS and then
completing the query via LDAP. A sample LDAP URL is ldap://
ldap.example.com.
LDAPv3 Version 3 of the LDAP protocol, upon which Directory Server bases
its schema format.
LDBM database A high-performance, disk-based database consisting of a set of large
files that contain all of the data assigned to it. The primary data store
in Directory Server.
LDIF LDAP Data Interchange Format. Format used to represent Directory
Server entries in text form.
leaf entry An entry under which there are no other entries. A leaf entry cannot
be a branch point in a directory tree.
Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol
See LDAP.
locale Identifies the collation order, character type, monetary format and
time / date format used to present data for users of a specific region,
culture, and/or custom. This includes information on how data of a
given language is interpreted, stored, or collated. The locale also
indicates which code page should be used to represent a given
language.
M
managed object A standard value which the SNMP agent can access and send to the
NMS. Each managed object is identified with an official name and a
numeric identifier expressed in dot-notation.
managed role Allows creation of an explicit enumerated list of members.
management information
base
See MIB.
mapping tree A data structure that associates the names of suffixes (subtrees) with
databases.