<hostType> Element

The <hostType> element is a child of the <memberList> element and is used to declare a host type to be referenced by the plug-in. The name of the host type will be implicitly prefixed with the plug-in name when the host type is created in the system.

<hostType> Element Attributes

The <hostType> element has two attributes:

• name – The name of the host type. The name attribute has a maximum length of 32. The name must begin with either a Unicode letter or an underscore character (_), followed by either Unicode letters, number, or an underscore character (_), dot (.), or dash (-).

• description (optional) – The description of the host type

<varlist> Element

The <hostType> element contains an optional <varlist> child element. The <varlist> element specifies a list of variables to be added to the <hostType> element and later used by hosts in configuration.

The <varlist> child element contains one or more <var> child elements. The <var> element provides <hostType> element variable declaration through two required attributes:

• name – The name of the variable

• default – The default value of the variable