You can define temporary attributes in the types file. The values of temporary attributes remain in memory as long as the VCS HAD process is running. Values of temporary attributes are not available when the HAD process 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 the temporary attribute definitions and their default values in the type definition file.

You can modify attribute values only while VCS is running.

In the following example of RVGSnapshot resource type, FDFile is the temporary attribute.

type RVGSnapshot (
        static keylist RegList = { Prefix }
        static int NumThreads = 1
        static str ArgList[] = { RvgResourceName, CacheObj,
Prefix, DestroyOnOffline }
        str RvgResourceName
        str CacheObj
        str Prefix
        boolean DestroyOnOffline = 1
        temp str FDFile
)