Make it a bit less painful to configure external (e.g. LDAP) authentication.

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Author: Jeff Gehlbach <jeffg@opennms.org>
Date:   Wed Mar 5 11:43:13 2014 -0500

    Add some comments to clarify things a bit

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Author: Jeff Gehlbach <jeffg@opennms.org>
Date:   Tue Mar 4 16:04:29 2014 -0500

    Blow up the external-auth stuff and provide some examples
NMS-4209: Add a bunch of Cisco Nexus SNMP collection and graph definitions.
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Date:   Wed Dec 11 17:14:15 2013 -0800

    Further Nexus data collection and graph work from Yuri Bank

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Date:   Wed Dec 11 17:13:21 2013 -0800

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Date:   Tue Dec 10 15:50:15 2013 -0800

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Author: Jeff Gehlbach <jeffg@opennms.org>
Date:   Tue Dec 10 10:47:01 2013 -0800

    Initial commit of Eric Abrahamsen's work from NMS-4209, plus some tweaks and additions
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