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Integration Facilities of the HP OpenView NNM Core Platform
The OpenView Windows API
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While the field type specifies the data type of the field, the field flags
specify how the field is treated by OpenView Windows. OVW provides
the flexibility to treat fields in different ways. There are five types of
flags (behavior) that can be applied to fields. The examples given behind
a field flag item are taken from the Field Registration File:
❏ List
This field is a List of the specified type. Currently, the only support
types for lists are strings and integers. For example, you might define
a field for the names of administrators of your computer network. The
type would be string, and the flag field would be set to list to allow
you to store multiple names:
Field “administrators” {
Type String;
Flags list;
}
❏ Name
Name fields uniquely identify objects, i.e. there is only one object with
a specific value for this field. Because the hostname of a computer
would be unique for all nodes on the network, the name flag can be
set for the field:
Field “IP Hostname” {
Type String;
Flags name;
}