Working with Equipment Holder Specifications

An Equipment Holder specification defines a slot into which cards can be installed. Equipment holders are provided by equipment and can in turn contain other equipment. For example, a LAN card can be installed in a slot that is installed in a shelf. An equipment holder cannot exist on its own. It must always be provided by equipment.

You create Equipment Holder specifications in the same manner as you create other types of specifications. See "Creating New Specifications" for more information.

You can configure an Equipment specification so that instances of the specification automatically include physical ports, physical connectors, and equipment holders. See "About Equipment Specification Ports, Connectors, and Equipment Holders" for more information.

You can configure Equipment Holder specifications so that slots based on those specifications can contain only cards based on particular specifications. If you establish a parent-to-child relationship between an Equipment Holder specification and one or more Card specifications, UIM limits which cards a slot can contain. See "Defining Specification Relationships" for information about establishing these relationships.

See "Equipment Holder Specification Editor" for reference information about the tabs you use to define an Equipment Holder specification.