Attribute life: temporary attributes
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Attribute life: temporary attributes

You can define temporary attributes in the types.cf file. The values of temporary attributes remain in memory as long as the VCS engine (HAD) is running. Values of temporary attributes are not available when HAD is restarted. These attribute values are not stored in the main.cf file.

Temporary attributes cannot be converted to permanent, and vice-versa. When you save a configuration, VCS saves temporary attributes and their default values in the file types.cf.

The scope of these attributes can be local to a node or global across all nodes in the cluster. Local attributes can be defined even when the node is not part of a cluster.

You can define and modify these attributes only while VCS is running.

See Adding, deleting, and modifying resource attributes.