Setup guide

OSx Migration Cookbook August 30, 2006
Appendix A – Install.tag format
An install.tag file is a csv type file that contains three types of records delimited by
commas. Tag records introduce a tag. Following a tag record are one or more attribute
records. There are as many attribute records as there are attributes for that tag. Following
all tag and attributes there can optionally be process group records. Process group records
are only available in files generated by APT.
This format is documented in the APT Applications manual and the OSx Process
Configuration manual. Since these manuals were written, three new optional fields were
added to the attribute records. These fields are only used in the STATUS attribute record
of networked tags. DBA can accept files with and without these three optional fields.
DBA uses these fields to set the alarmability of tags. Only those tags configured for
alarming should have these fields. See the description in the section on tags above. The
fields are documented below.
New Status Attribute Fields
Field Data Type
Maximum
length
Description
RBE ID
Integer as text 5
RBE ID = pseudo_tag + RBE offset
The RBE offset is stored in the
record whose key is 48 in the config
table. The RBE offset is usually 0
Zero
Integer as text 1 The digit 0
Zero
Integer as text 1 The digit 0
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