Adding Substitution Variable Definitions to Components

When you use the N1 Service Provisioning System software to run a plan that deploys an application across multiple hosts, you can use the configuration generation feature to automatically insert the appropriate configuration values for each host. The provisioning software does this by parsing a template of the configuration file that you create.

To do this, you add substitution variable definitions to your components. These can be used, for example, as a way to configure the directory into which an application is installed. Using the provisioning software, you can define and manage different variable settings for application deployments on each of your target hosts.

• Each version of a component can declare its own variable definitions

• Each version of a component has its own variable settings (possibly imported from a previous version)

• Each component can be installed using any of its variable settings