Installation guide

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. 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 Prot ocol

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. T his 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.

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.

Glossary