Resource templates contain agent prototypes, which represent agents that are not yet installed or connected to an environment. When you create an environment, you can use a resource template as a model for the environment. Then, you can map real agents to the agent prototypes in the template.
Resource templates provide a pattern for an environment. For example, you can use resource templates to represent dynamic cloud environments. See Importing resource templates from clouds. If you define environment templates in an application template, you must use resource templates to define the resource models for the environment templates. See Creating application templates.