For agents registered with agent version V40 and earlier, it's required that the arguments passed to the entry point to be in the order indicated by the ArgList attribute as it was defined in the resource type. The order of parsing the arguments was determined by their position in the resource type definition.

With the agent framework for V50 and later, agents can use entry points that can be passed attributes and their values in a format of name-value tuples. Such a format means that attributes and their values are parsed by the name of the attribute and not by their position in the ArgList Attribute.

The general tuple format for attributes in the ArgList is:

<name> <number_of_elements_in_value> <value>