This appendix lists the requirements for legal characters for the names and values of Sun Cluster Geographic Edition entities.
This appendix contains the following topics:
Sun Cluster Geographic Edition entity names consist of the following:
Host names
Partnership names
Protection group names
Custom heartbeat names
All names must comply with the following rules:
Must be in ASCII.
Must start with a letter.
Can contain upper and lowercase letters, digits, dashes (-), and underscores (_).
Must not exceed 255 characters.
The values of Sun Cluster Geographic Edition entities fall into two categories: property values and description values, both of which share the same rules, as follows:
Values must be in ASCII.
The maximum length of a value is 4 megabytes minus 1, that is, 4,194,303 bytes.
Values cannot contain any of the following characters: newline or semicolon.