Glossary

The following terms and descriptions pertain to Data Manager and LDAP.

Access control instructions (ACI)

Access control in LDAP is a way of expressing and configuring the rights that users have to directory entries. A Netscape Directory Server stores access control Instructions inside the directory itself. Every entry can have a set of rules that define an ACI for that entry.

Access control list (ACL)

Most network security systems operate by allowing selective use of services. An access control list is the usual means by which access to, and denial of, services is controlled. It is simply a list of the services available, each with a list of the computers and users permitted to use the service.

Company Directory

The Company Directory contains the phone number or extension for every person running the CIC client.

Contact

In the CIC client, a contact is information about a person, including the person's name, telephone number, e-mail address, mailing address, web page, and so on. Contacts are stored in lists called contact directories.

Contact directory

Contact directories, also called data sources, contain lists of people and contact information about those people. Add and remove contact directories by right-clicking in the gray area to the right of the directory pages.

A contact directory may be either public (available to all CIC client users) or private (available only to the CIC client user who created or owns that directory).

By default, the contact directory for your private contacts is named CIC Private Contacts. The default contact directory for your public contacts is named CIC Public Contacts. The contact directory that holds all CIC client users is the Company Directory.

Contact List Source

Contact list sources in Interaction Administrator use CIC data sources and a particular CIC-specific driver to define contact lists that can appear as directory tabs in the CIC client. The CIC LDAP Contact driver provides access to the contact data stored in an LDAP-enabled Netscape Directory Server.

Distinguished name (DN)

Distinguished name. Every addressable directory object has a distinguished name (DN) consisting of its path plus its name, applications can address a message to any object using the object's DN.

CIC Data Source

An CIC Data Source is configured in Interaction Administrator, and contains the information needed to connect to the underlying data repository (data source).

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.LDAP is an Internet standard that allows applications to connect to a directory server. The LDAP-compatible directory server stores objects that represent users, groups of users, workstations, applications, distribution lists, and so on.

Private contact

Private contacts are available only to you, and other CIC client users will not see them.

Public contact

Public contacts are available for all CIC client users to see.

Schema

A schema is the formal definition of all object types that can be stored in the directory. The definition in the schema consists of a class definition for each type of object and an attribute definition for each attribute. The class definitions list the attributes that can be used to describe the class.

User substitution variables

Substitution variables are placeholders used to denote a string value that will be substituted at a later time (such as runtime). For example, $CONTACTSOURCE is a substitution variable that can be used when configuring a contact list source in Interaction Administrator. At runtime – when the contact data is actually being retrieved – the actual name of the current contact list source is substituted for $CONTACTLISTSOURCE.

A user substitution variable is a substitution variable that has different runtime mappings for different users (see ICUser_map.txt example file).

Sources:

Newton, Harry, Newton’s Telecom Dictionary, Telecom Books, February 2000.

Weltman, Rob, and Dahbura, Tony, LDAP Programming with Java, AWL Direct Sales, Addison Wesley Longman, Inc, January 2000.