N1 Service Provisioning System 4.1 Reference Guide

The executionPlan Element

The entire plan is enclosed by the <executionPlan> element.

In the following tables, the “Config” column indicates whether or not a specific attribute may include substitution variable references in the form “:[varName]”.

executionPlan Element attributes

Name	Type	Required	Description
xmlns	String	Yes	Required value: http://www.sun.com/schema/SPS
xmlns:xsi	String	Yes	Required value: http://www.w3.org/ 2001/XML Schema-instance
xsi:schemaLocation	String	No	Recommended value: http://www.sun.com/schema/SPS plan.xsd
name	entityName	Yes	The name of the plan
path	pathName	No	The absolute path of the execution plan. If unspecified, the root path “/” is used by default.
description	String	No	The description of the plan
version	schemaVersion	Yes	The version of the plan schema being used. The only value currently permitted is 4.0.

executionPlan child elements

Plans are either simple or composite. Simple plans do not contain or call other plans. A simple plan is a sequential list of steps that will be executed on a particular set of target machines. Composite plans are composed solely of other subplans. Composite plans are not directly targeted, as each simple subplan they recursively contain has a different set of targets.

Name	How Many?	Description
paramList	0 or 1	A list of parameters for use within the plan.
varList	0 or 1	A list of variables for use within the plan.
simpleSteps	0 or 1	Contains a list of simple steps. Either this element or the compositeSteps element must be present, but not both.
compositeSteps	0 or 1	Contains a list of composite steps. Either this element or the simpleSteps element must be present, but not both.