Veritas Storage Foundation Intelligent Storage Provisioning 5.0.1 Administrators Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, November 2009

See “About ISP configuration elements” on page 187.
Capabilities
A capability, as expressed in the ISP language, is a description of what a volume
is capable of doing. Each template is associated with one or more capabilities so
that ISP can choose those templates that are suitable for use in allocating storage
to volumes. A capability is interpreted by ISP as a tag.
A typical capability definition has the following format:
capability cap_name {
extends capname1,capname2, ...
description text
descriptionid id
display_name name
display_name_id catalogid, index
var varname1:type {
defaultvalue value
description description
descriptionid catalogid, index
}
var varname2:type {
defaultvalue value
description text
descriptionid catalogid, index
}
...
};
This definition has the following important components:
Indicates the nature of the capability, for example, Reliable,
Performant, Snapshot and EMCSnapshot.
cap_name
Indicates that the capability is derived from other named capabilities.
See “Inheritance of capabilities” on page 147.
extends
Describes a capability or one of its variable parameters in English.description
References the message catalog where localized versions of the
description may be found, and provides an index number for the
description in the catalog.
descriptionid
Using capabilities, templates and rules
Capabilities
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