Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4200 - Manual (Page 79)

Chapter 7 Command Line Interface Tasks 7-3
7.2 About LDAP
The ILOM Service Processor supports Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
(LDAP) authentication for users, based on the OpenLDAP software. LDAP is a
general-purpose directory service. A directory service is a centralized database for
distributed applications designed to manage the entries in a directory. Thus,
multiple applications can share a single user database. For more detailed
information on LDAP, see
http://www.openldap.org/ .
7.2.1 How LDAP Works
LDAP is based on a client-server model. LDAP provides the directory, and the
clients use the directory service to access entries. The data stored in a directory can
be distributed among several LDAP servers.
7.2.2 How LDAP Servers Organize Directories
Data in LDAP is organized hierarchically, starting at a root and branching down into
individual entries. Entries at the top level of the hierarchy represent larger
organizations, and under the larger organizations are entries for smaller
organizations. At the bottom of the hierarchy are entries for individual people or
resources.