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. |
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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 |
managed role | Allows creation of an explicit enumerated list of members. |
management information | See MIB. |
base |
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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 |
| 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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