
| See Also |
SNMP | Used to monitor and manage application processes running on |
| the servers by exchanging data about network activity. Also |
| Simple Network Management Protocol. |
SNMP master agent | Software that exchanges information between the various |
| subagents and the NMS. |
SNMP subagent | Software that gathers information about the managed device |
| and passes the information to the master agent. Also called a |
| subagent. |
SSL | A software library establishing a secure connection between |
| two parties (client and server) used to implement HTTPS, the |
| secure version of HTTP. Also called Secure Sockets Layer. |
standard index | index maintained by default. |
sub suffix | A branch underneath a root suffix. |
subagent | See SNMP subagent. |
substring index | Allows for efficient searching against substrings within entries. |
| Substring indexes are limited to a minimum of two characters |
| for each entry. |
suffix | The name of the entry at the top of the directory tree, below |
| which data is stored. Multiple suffixes are possible within the |
| same directory. Each database only has one suffix. |
superuser | The most privileged user available on Unix machines. The |
| superuser has complete access privileges to all files on the |
| machine. Also called root. |
supplier | Server containing the master copy of directory trees or |
| subtrees that are replicated to replica servers. |
supplier server | In the context of replication, a server that holds a replica that is |
| copied to a different server is called a supplier for that replica. |
Replication configuration where supplier servers replicate | |
| directory data to any replica servers. |
symmetric encryption | Encryption that uses the same key for both encrypting and |
| decrypting. DES is an example of a symmetric encryption |
| algorithm. |
system index | Cannot be deleted or modified as it is essential to Directory |
| Server operations. |
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