Red Hat DIRECTORY SERVER 7.1 Installation Manual page 90

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service
A background process on a Windows machine that is responsible for a particular system task.
Service processes do not need human intervention to continue functioning.
SIE
Server Instance Entry. The ID assigned to an instance of Directory Server during installation.
Simple Authentication and Security Layer
See SASL.
Simple Network Management Protocol
See SNMP.
single-master replication
The most basic replication scenario in which two servers each hold a copy of the same read-
write replicas to consumer servers. In a single-master replication scenario, the supplier server
maintains a changelog.
SIR
See supplier-initiated replication.
slapd
LDAP Directory Server daemon or service that is responsible for most functions of a directory
except replication. See also ns-slapd.
SNMP
Also Simple Network Management Protocol. Used to monitor and manage application processes
running on the servers by exchanging data about network activity.
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 subagent.
Glossary