Installation guide

Int ernational Standards Organization
See ISO.
IP address
Also Internet Protocol address. A set of numbers, separated by dots, that specifies the actual
location of a machine on the Internet (for example, 198.93.93.10).
ISO
International Standards Organization.
K
knowledge reference
Pointers to directory information stored in different databases.
L
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 dat abase
A high-performance, disk-based database consisting of a set of large files that contain all of the
data assigned to it. T he primary data store in Directory Server.
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