Property Group Types and Property Types

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A property group type is a category for the property group. Property group types include the following:

application
configfile
dependency
framework
implementation
method
template

You can introduce a new property group type. The name of a property group type follows the same rules as stated in Naming Property Groups and Properties. The name of a property group type is no longer than 140 characters.

When you create a property group, the type of the property group should be either application or a new type that you created. The property group types configfile, dependency, framework, implementation, method, and template have special use in SMF. Property groups of type application are expected to be of interest only to the service to which this property group is attached.

The following table describes the possible values for properties of various types. This information is also available from the scf_value_create(3SCF) man page.

Table 2 Service Property Type Value Descriptions

Property Type	Value Description
`boolean`	Single bit: `true` or `false`
`count`	Unsigned 64-bit quantity
`integer`	Signed 64-bit quantity
`time`	Signed 64-bit seconds or signed 32-bit nanoseconds (`ns`) in the following range: 0 <= `ns` < 1,000,000,000
`astring`	An 8-bit NULL-terminated string
`ustring`	An 8-bit UTF-8 string
`uri`	A URI string
`fmri`	A Fault Management Resource Identifier
`host`	A host name, an IPv4 address, or an IPv6 address
`hostname`	A fully qualified domain name
`net_addr`	A valid `net_addr_v4` or `net_addr_v6` address
`net_addr_v4`	A dotted-quad IPv4 address with optional network portion
`net_addr_v6`	A legal IPv6 address with optional network portion