Setting Up Hosts in the N1 Grid Service Provisioning System – Process Overview

The following outline shows the tasks that you need to perform when setting up the provisioning system.

1. Determine how many hosts you need and the roles that the different hosts will have.

2. If necessary, define the host types that will map to the hosts that you need to create.

   See Creating Host Types.

3. If necessary, install the Remote Agent or Local Distributor software on your physical servers.

   See the N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 5.0 Installation Guide.

4. Working from the Master Server down the communication chain, create host records for the Local Distributors and Remote Agents in the provisioning system.

   See Physical Hosts.

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   Note –

   For each host, you need to define the connection between the physical host and the next host closer to the Master Server in the communication chain. Therefore, the host's parent must be added to the provisioning system before you can add the host itself.

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5. Prepare the hosts.

   See Preparing a Physical Host.

6. Optional. Create virtual hosts.

   See Virtual Hosts.