HP-UX Workload Manager User's Guide

Configuring WLM
Configuration file syntactic conventions
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For information on these items, see the following sections:
• “Specifying the WLM parser version” on page 144
• “Defining the PRM components (optional)” on page 149
• “Defining SLOs” on page 186
• “Tuning the metrics and the SLOs” on page 210
Configuration file syntactic conventions
The following syntactic conventions are used in the WLM configuration
file:
• SLOs, tunables, and PRM information are represented as structures.
You can list these structures in any order.
• A structure is an unordered list of keyword/value pairs.
• Unless otherwise specified, white space is ignored.
• The semicolon character (;) is used as a separator between
keyword/value pairs.
• The equal character (=) is used to separate a keyword from its value.
• Curly brackets ({ and }) are used to delimit the specification of a
structure.
• Some keywords are global and can only be defined outside the scope
of a structure (outside curly brackets).
• Any keyword can appear at most once in a structure.
• The hash character (#) comments out the rest of the line, unless
quoted as part of a name.
• Floating-point numbers cannot be expressed using scientific
(exponent) notation.
• An unquoted number cannot be a name.