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LDAPv3 Version 3 of the LDAP protocol, upon which Directory Server bases its
schema format
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
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.
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 Allow you to create 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 agent See SNMP master agent.