1. A method, comprising: a clusterware manager managing a resource according to resource attribute values specified by a resource profile, said resource profile conforming to a resource profile syntax that said clusterware manager is configured to interpret pursuant to clusterware manager software; wherein said resource profile syntax prescribes runtime values for resource attributes, where each runtime value of said runtime values is a value that represents a resource attribute value that is determined at runtime; wherein said resource profile specifies a runtime value for a particular resource attribute; wherein said clusterware manager managing resource attributes includes: detecting that said resource profile specifies said runtime value according to the resource profile syntax; in response to detecting that said resource profile specifies said runtime value according to the resource profile syntax: determining an actual resource attribute value to assign to said particular resource attribute, said actual resource attribute value being different than said runtime value; configuring the resource according to the said actual resource attribute value, wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.