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N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 5.0 Plan and Component Developer's Guide

Preface

The N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 5.0 Plan and Component Developer's Guide provides information that helps developers write plans and components. It includes information about concepts that are related to plan and component development.

Who Should Use This Book

This book is for developers who want to use the N1TM Grid Service Provisioning System to install and manage applications in data centers.

How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1, Plan and Component Development Concepts describes concepts that pertain to components, plans, component types, system services, and session variables.

Chapter 2, Components explains how to perform component-related tasks.

Chapter 3, Built-in Component Types describes the built-in component types.

Chapter 4, Plans explains how to create, manage, and run plans.

Chapter 5, Session Variables explains how to manage session variables.

Chapter 6, Configuration Generation describes configuration generation and substitution variables.

Appendix A, Variable Substitution Grammar provides a description of the grammar used for variable substitution.

Related Books

The N1 Grid Service Provisioning System documentation includes these other books:

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Ordering Sun Documentation

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Typographic Conventions

The following table describes the typographic changes that are used in this book.

Table P–1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface or Symbol 

Meaning 

Example 

AaBbCc123

The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output 

Edit your .login file.

Use ls -a to list all files.

machine_name% you have mail.

AaBbCc123

What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output 

machine_name% su

Password:

AaBbCc123

Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or value 

The command to remove a file is rm filename.

AaBbCc123

Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized 

Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide.

Perform a patch analysis.

Do not save the file.

[Note that some emphasized items appear bold online.] 

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P–2 Shell Prompts

Shell 

Prompt 

C shell prompt 

machine_name%

C shell superuser prompt 

machine_name#

Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt 

$

Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt 

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