Glossary

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Agent: See Configuration Manager Agent.
APOC (A Point Of Control): Internal code name for the Java^TM Desktop System Configuration Manager, Release 1.1.

Configuration Manager Agent: A module residing in a managed resource on a network, capable of requesting and caching configuration policies.
Configuration Policy: A rule or set of rules that control behavior of the Configuration Manager and its point products.
Configuration Policy Group: A container for configuration policies that can be linked to organizations, groups, users or hosts. Configuration policy groups are stored in the configuration policy repository.
Configuration Policy Repository: A container that stores configuration policy groups.
Configuration Policy Template (CPT): An XML file containing a collection of data locations for configuration settings forming a policy, a description of the user interface to visualize the data, and constraints for that data.

Entity: A logical object to which configuration data can be assigned. Users, roles/groups and organizations are examples of entities known to the Configuration Manager.

LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). LDAP is a directory service protocol that runs over TCP/IP. The details of LDAP are defined in RFC 1777 'The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol'.

Merging: When a client requests configuration data, it does so in the context of an entity (e.g. a user, a role or an organization). To provide the data for the entity, the configuration client first loads the relevant data from the registry layer and then applies the customizations of the layers in turn (using the organization hierarchy to determine the layers and their precedence) until it reaches the layer belonging to the entity in context. The client is only aware of the role/group and user entities.