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LDAP

The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an open, vendor-neutral, industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol network.

nut

The Node Utility Tool (nut) is a set of command line utilities that can be used for device appliance configuration in an IBM Cloud Object Storage System™ system. For more information, see Node utilities.

Sites
A logical grouping of device sets.
Local account
A set of credentials that is created and configured on the Manager device, and is local to the system.