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

Variable Settings

Variable settings are collections of variable values that can be used to override the default values of one or more component variables. Based on the variable settings that you use, you can specify different values for component variables. You specify which variable settings to use when you run a plan.

For example, a component is deployed to different environments, such as a production environment and a development environment. If the defined component variables are set up to recognize the differences between environments, you can use variable settings to configure the component for each environment. For example, use one set to configure the production environment and another set to configure the component for the development environment.