The creation type of the patch. The use is as follows:
provisioned(1)
Provisioned by the user or by a management system
using the Command Line Interface, SNMP, or other
means of management access to the network element.
automatic(2)
Created automatically by the network element, without
user or management intervention. In particular, this
is used to represent fixed patches due to the presence
of entities such as optical backplanes.