Resource Attributes

Only available to Administrators defining the resource.

Resource attributes define the connection information on the resource being managed. Resource attributes typically include the resource host name, resource administrator name and password, and the container information for directory-based resources. Waveset attributes such as the list of resource approvers and the number of times to retry operations on the resource are also considered resource attributes.

When writing custom adapters, you use resource attributes to define:

• Resources you want to manage, along with other connection and resource characteristics.

  From the perspective of an administrator using the Waveset Administrator interface, these attributes define the field names that are visible in the Waveset interface and prompt the user for values.

  For Active Directory resources, attributes can include source name, host name, port number, user, password, and domain. For example, the Create/Edit Resource page for a resource type requires a host field in which administrators creating a resource identify the host on which the resource resides. This field (not the contents of the field) is defined in this adapter file.

• Authorized account that has rights to create users on the resource. For an Active Directory resource, this includes the user and password fields.

• Source attributes including the form, the Waveset administrator that the adapter will run as, scheduling and logging information, and additional attributes used only in Active Sync methods.

You can modify these values from the Waveset interface when creating a specific instance of this resource type.