Resources are parts of a system. They are known by their types, for example: a volume, a disk group, or an IP address. VCS includes a set of resource types. Different attributes define these resource types in the types.cf file. Each type has a corresponding agent that controls the resource.

The VCS configuration file, main.cf, contains the values for the resource attributes and has an include directive to the types.cf file.

An attribute's given value configures the resource to function in a specific way. By modifying the value of a resource attribute, you can change the way the VCS agent manages the resource. For example, the IP agent uses the Address attribute to determine the IP address to monitor.