CoS definition | Identifies the type of CoS you are using. It is stored as an LDAP subentry below the branch it |
entry | affects. |
CoS template | Contains a list of the shared attribute values. |
entry | See also template entry. |
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daemon | A background process on a Unix machine that is responsible for a particular system task. |
| Daemon processes do not need human intervention to continue functioning. |
DAP | Directory Access Protocol. The ISO X.500 standard protocol that provides client access to the |
| directory. |
data master | The server that is the master source of a particular piece of data. |
database link | An implementation of chaining. The database link behaves like a database but has no persistent |
| storage. Instead, it points to data stored remotely. |
default index | One of a set of default indexes created per database instance. Default indexes can be modified, |
| although care should be taken before removing them, as certain |
definition entry | See CoS definition entry. |
Directory Access | See DAP. |
Protocol |
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Directory | The privileged database administrator, comparable to the root user in UNIX. Access control |
Manager | does not apply to the Directory Manager. |
directory service | A database application designed to manage descriptive, |
| people and resources within an organization. |
directory tree | The logical representation of the information stored in the directory. It mirrors the tree model |
| used by most filesystems, with the tree's root point appearing at the top of the hierarchy. Also |
| known as DIT. |
distinguished | String representation of an entry's name and location in an LDAP directory. |
name |
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DIT | See directory tree. |
DM | See Directory Manager. |
DN | See distinguished name. |
DNS | Domain Name System. The system used by machines on a network to associate standard IP |
| addresses (such as 198.93.93.10) with host names (such as www.example.com). Machines |
| normally get the IP address for a host name from a DNS server, or they look it up in tables |
| maintained on their systems. |
DNS alias | A DNS alias is a host name that the DNS server knows points to a different host specifically a |
| DNS CNAME record. Machines always have one real name, but they can have one or more |
| aliases. For example, an alias such as www.yourdomain.domain might point to a real machine |
| called realthing.yourdomain.domain where the server currently exists. |
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entry | A group of lines in the LDIF file that contains information about an object. |
entry distribution | Method of distributing directory entries across more than one server in order to scale to support |
| large numbers of entries. |
entry ID list | Each index that the directory uses is composed of a table of index keys and matching entry ID |
| lists. The entry ID list is used by the directory to build a list of candidate entries that may match |
| the client application's search request. |
equality index | Allows you to search efficiently for entries containing a specific attribute value. |
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file extension | The section of a file name after the period or dot (.) that typically defines the type of file (for |
| example, .GIF and .HTML). In the file name index.html the file extension is html. |
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