In the lab management sections of Rational Quality Manager, you can display or hide lab resource properties. Click Admin >System Properties > Lab Resource Properties.
In the lab management feature, examples of lab resource types are Machine and Operating system. These are examples of root types that can contain subtypes. Both root and subtypes can contain attributes. Attributes are fields that are displayed in the user interface and that can hold values for a lab resource type. Most attributes are associated with root types. However, you can also add attributes to subtypes and to new types that you define.
If you add new attributes to a root type, those attributes are also displayed for any subtypes that are associated with the root type. When you hide a type or an attribute, it is no longer displayed. However, you can view and restore hidden types and attributes.