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Glossary

This glossary defines a selection of professional terms widely used in this documentation.

Configuration Set

A configuration set is a group of Adaxes services that share their configuration. It means that changes of configuration made to one Adaxes service are replicated to other Adaxes services in the configuration set automatically.

Distribution Group

A type of groups that cannot be granted security permissions. Security Roles cannot be assigned to this group type.

Domain Local Group

A security or distribution group that can contain groups with all scopes from its own domain, and accounts from any domain in the forest.

Global Group

A group that can contain members only from the domain, in which this group is located, but can be a member of the Universal and Domain Local groups of any domain.

LDAP filter

LDAP filters are used to specify search criteria for directory objects. LDAP filter specifies attribute values, the requested directory objects should have. For more details, see RFC 2254*.

List View

List View is a view that displays children of an AD object in the form of a list.

Security Group

A type of groups that can be granted security permissions. Security Roles can be assigned to this group type only.

Security Role Trustee

A Security Role trustee is a user or group to which a Security Role is assigned delegating to it a set of permissions on certain resources. Security Roles trustees can be users, groups and special system groups called Well-Known Security Principals.

SPML

Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML) is an XML-based framework for exchanging user, resource and service provisioning information between applications. SPML is an open, standard protocol for the integration and interoperability of service provisioning requests. For more information, see SPML Standard*.

Value Reference

A value reference is a pattern of text that contains the LDAP name of the property it refers to and some formatting options. When the property is set, such pattern is replaced with the value of the referenced property.

Universal Group

A security or distribution group that can contain members from any domain and be a member of Universal and Domain Local groups from any domain.