Usage

Entity Descriptor Identification

If any part of the entity-identification (NAME, TYPE, and VERSION) is not specified, or is specified with name masking, SIGNOUT entity selection will be accomplished for all entity occurrences meeting the criteria of the information specified.

Name, type and version all specified exactly. The combination identifies one (or zero) specific entity descriptor.

Name and type specified, version defaults to *. This combination identifies all entity descriptors in the CCDB which match the specified name and type, regardless of the version number.

Name specified, type defaults to *, version defaults to *. This combination identifies all entity descriptors in the CCDB which match the specified name, regardless of the type and version.

Type specified, name defaults to * , version defaults to *. This combination identifies all entity descriptors in the CCDB which match the specified type, regardless of the name and version.

No specification. Name defaults to *, type defaults to *, version defaults to *. This combination identifies all entity descriptors in the CCDB.

Name mask specified instead of name in any of the cases above will identify a set of entity names. Refer to Chapter 1 for a description of the name-mask rules.