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.

M

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

See MIB.

base

 

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 tree-like hierarchy, where the

 

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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