This appendix lists the requirements for legal characters for RGM names and values.
Resource Group Manager (RGM) names fall into the following five categories.
resource-group names
resource-type names
resource names
property names
enumeration literal names
Except for resource type 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
A resource type name can be a simple name (specified by the Resource_type property in the RTR file) or a complete name (specified by the Vendor_id and Resource_type properties in the RTR file). When you specify both these properties, the RGM inserts a period between the Vendor_id and Resource_type to form the complete name. For example, if Vendor_id=SUNW and Resource_type=sample, the complete name is SUNW.sample. This instance is the only case where a period is a legal character in an RGM name.
RGM values fall into two categories-property values and description values-both of which share the same rules, as follows.