Glossary

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LDAP

Short for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. It is an open, vendor-neutral, and lightweight industry standard client-server protocol for accessing directory services. LDAP runs over TCP/IP or other connection-oriented transfer services.

Linux

A family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel.  

Load Balancing

Load balancing distributes workloads across multiple resources, such as computers, network links, and central processing units or disk drives.

Logging

A way to record standard message traffic, as well as log message date and time, who sent them, and what was sent.