Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.1 - 08-2002 ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual page 369

Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) An emerging standard for
multimedia email and messaging.
Netscape Console A Java application that provides server administrators with a
graphical interface for managing all Netscape servers from one central location
anywhere within your enterprise network. From any installed instance of Netscape
Console, you can see and access all the Netscape servers on your enterprise's
network to which you have been granted access rights.
network management station (NMS) A machine users can use to remotely
manage a network. A managed device is anything that runs SNMP such as hosts,
routers, and Netscape servers. An NMS is usually a powerful workstation with one
or more network management applications installed.
NIS (UNIX) Network Information Service. A system of programs and data files
that UNIX machines use to collect, collate, and share specific information about
machines, users, file systems, and network parameters throughout a network of
computers.
NNTP Network News Transfer Protocol for newsgroups. You must define your
news server host to use agent services on your server.
NSAPI See Server Plug-in API.
obj.conf The server's object configuration file. This file contains additional
initialization information, settings for server customization, and instructions that
the server uses to process requests from clients (such as browsers). Enterprise
Server reads this file every time it processes a client request.
password file (UNIX) A file on UNIX machines that stores UNIX user login
names, passwords, and user ID numbers. It is also known as /etc/passwd,
because of where it is kept.
pk12util Software utility required to export the certificate and key databases
from your internal machine, and import them into an external PKCS#11 module.
primary document directory See document root.
protocol A set of rules that describes how devices on a network exchange
information.
private key The decryption key used in public-key encryption.
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