CermSubEntityId

  • Base type Unsigned32
  • Range 0 — 4294967295

This indicates the sub-entity identifier. If a physical entity has multiple logical processing entities and these entities have its own set of resources, we use sub-entities to uniquely identiy these logical processing entities. For example, if each process in the system has separate memory address space (i.e. memory address space is not shared between processes), then each process can be considered as a separate logical processing entity. In such cases, the sub-entity identifier can be used to distinguish an ERM entity in one logical processing entity from others. Each sub-entity (i.e. logical processing entity) might have its own set of resources owners, resource user types, resource users, resource groups and resource monitors. If the system doesn't have more than one logical processing entities, then sub-entity identifier may have zero value.