Resources are hardware or software entities, such as disks, volumes, file system mount points, network interface cards (NICs), IP addresses, applications, and databases. Resources work together to provide a service to clients in a client/server environment. Resource types are defined in the types.cf
file by a collection of attributes. The VCS configuration file, main.cf
, contains the values for the attributes of the resources. The main.cf
file incorporates the resources listed in the types.cf
by way of an include
directive.