Cisco Systems OL-24201-01 Camera Accessories User Manual


 
Glossary
GL-18
User Guide for Cisco Secure Access Control System 5.3
OL-24201-01
U
UDP
User Datagram Protocol. A communications protocol that offers a limited amount of service when
messages are exchanged between computers in a network that uses the Internet Protocol (IP)
URL
Uniform Resource Locator. The unique address for a file that is accessible on the Internet.
user and identity
store
A repository of users, user attributes, and user authentication options.
user authentication
option
An option to enable or disable TACACS+ password authentication.
user attribute
configuration
An administrative task consisting of configuring an internal user's identity attributes.
V
VPN
Virtual Private Network. Enables IP traffic to travel securely over a public TCP/IP network by
encrypting all traffic from one network to another. A VPN uses "tunneling" to encrypt all information
at the IP level.
VSA
Vendor Specific Attribute. A proprietary property or characteristic not provided by the standard
Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) attribute set. VSAs are defined by vendors of
remote access servers to customize RADIUS for their servers.
W
WCS
Cisco Wireless Control System us a platform designed to help enterprises design, control and monitor
Cisco wireless LANs. WCS is the industry leading platform for wireless LAN planning, configuration,
and management.
Web server
A Web server is a program that, using the client/server model and the World Wide Web's Hypertext
Transfer Protocol (HTTP), serves the files that form Web pages to Web users (whose computers
contain HTTP clients that forward their requests).
Web service
A Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction
over a network. The web server interface is described in a machine-processable format, WSDL. Other
systems interact with the Web service, typically using HTTP with an XML serialization in conjunction
with other Web-related standards.
WSDL (Web
Services Description
Language)
WSDL is an XML-based language used to describe the services a business offers and to provide a way
for individuals and other businesses to access those services electronically.