Preface
The Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.1 Operation and Provisioning Guide provides procedures for deploying components and comparing hosts, host sets, and components.
Who Should Use This Book
This book is for users of the N1 Service Provisioning System software who are responsible for running plans and ensuring that systems in their environment have the correct resources installed.
How This Book Is Organized
Chapter 1, Deploying Components describes the different mechanisms available to deploy resources to hosts and host sets.
Chapter 2, Running Comparisons describes how to create and run the three different types of comparisons.
Related Books
The following books belong to the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.1 documentation collection. All books listed below are available on docs.sun.com.
Table P–1 Sun N1 Service Provisioning System5.1 Documentation|
Application |
Title |
|---|---|
|
Software Installation | |
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System Administration |
Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.1 System Administration Guide |
|
Plan and component creation |
Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.1 Plan and Component Developer’s Guide |
|
Command reference |
Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.1 Command-Line Interface Reference Manual |
|
XML Schema Reference |
Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.1 XML Schema Reference Guide |
|
Release Notes | |
|
Plug-in Development |
Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.1 Plug-in Development Guide |
Documentation, Support, and Training
|
Sun Function |
URL |
Description |
|---|---|---|
|
Documentation |
Download PDF and HTML documents, and order printed documents |
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Support and Training |
Obtain technical support, download patches, and learn about Sun courses |
Typographic Conventions
The following table describes the typographic changes that are used in this book.
Table P–2 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 |
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–3 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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