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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.
master See supplier.
master agent See SNMP master agent.
matching rule Provides guidelines for how the server compares strings during
a search operation. In an international search, the matching
rule tells the server what collation order and operator to use.
MD5 A message digest algorithm by RSA Data Security, Inc., which
can be used to produce a short digest of data that is unique
with high probability and is mathematically extremely hard to
produce; a piece of data that will produce the same message
digest.
MD5 signature A message digest produced by the MD5 algorithm.
MIB Management Information Base. All data, or any portion thereof,
associated with the SNMP network. We can think of the MIB as
a database which contains the definitions of all SNMP
managed objects. The MIB has a tree-like hierarchy, where the
top level contains the most general information about the
network and lower levels deal with specific, separate network
areas.
MIB namespace Management Information Base namespace. The means for
directory data to be named and referenced. Also called the
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