Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations

While working with Access Manager Plus, you will come across some terminologies having unique meanings. It is worthwhile to take a note of those terminologies before proceeding further:

Glossary of Terms

Term Description

Connection

Denotes the server/application/device whose sessions and passwords are to be managed by Access Manager Plus.

Connection Group

Denotes the group to which a particular connection belongs. For example, if you have some Windows XP servers among a number of other windows servers, you can group all the XP servers as one connection group.

User

Denotes the Access Manager Plus user accounts created as part of Access Manager Plus User Management.

User Group

Group of Access Manager Plus Users.

Sessions

Active connections are called as sessions.

Audit

Access Manager Plus maintains the complete record of every single action performed by the users within the application by using timestamp and IP address. Three types of audit are performed, Connection Audit, User Audit and Task Audit. Click here.

Roles

Users of Access Manager Plus are assigned with different roles based on preference. There are two types of roles in Access Manager Plus, the Administrator and the Standard User. Click here.

Abbreviations

Abbreviation Expansion

AMP

Access Manager Plus

AD

Active Directory

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

RADIUS

Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service

SSO

Single Sign-On

SAML

Security Assertion Markup Language

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol

TFA

Two-Factor Authentication

MFA

Multi-Factor Authentication 

ADFS

Active Directory Federation Services 

RSA

Rivest-Shamir-Adleman

SSH

Secure Shell

SSL

Secure Socket Layer

CLI

Computing Command-line Interface

IIS

Internet Information Server

FQDN

Fully Qualified Domain Name 

CA

Certificate Authority

RDP

Remote Desktop Protocol 

PKI

Public Key Infrastructure 

VNC

Virtual Network Computing 
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