The N1 Service Provisioning System Software Solution

N1 Service Provisioning System software is an enterprise-class software platform that automates the deployment, configuration, and analysis of applications in data centers. The provisioning software applies an object-oriented approach to:

• Application components

• Tasks that IT operators perform on application components: deployment, configuration, and analysis.

This object-oriented approach ensures that all the intelligence about an application component is automatically taken into account every time that component is acted upon. This consistency makes data center operations more accurate and less prone to error. Through Application Awareness–knowledge of what an application requires as a whole–IT operators gain unprecedented control over applications and data center operations.

N1 Service Provisioning System software can:

• Automate and manage software rollouts, patches, and upgrades

• Develop models of your existing deployment processes

• Determine what software is installed on your hosts

• Compare the configurations of hosts

• Monitor and maintain documented and consistent configurations.

N1 Service Provisioning System software offers a full range of features that help make that task of managing an enterprise wide computing environment easier and faster.

The provisioning software provides:

Automated Deployment

End-to-end automation of the deployment process, including distribution, configuration, and startup of packaged and custom applications.

Differential Deployment

Enabling delta-only distribution of large content directories thereby speeding up deployments significantly and optimizing incremental directory updates.

Deployment Simulation

Complete simulation of deployments to ensure that key requirements for success are in place before deployment.

Dynamic Configuration

Real-time generation of application configuration for the target environment provides flexibility during deployment.

Dependency Management

Ability to encode application dependency information which is checked during Deployment Simulation to prevent errors that cause downtime and to leverages best practices across entire operations team.

Application Comparison

Ability to track application configuration drifts, and pinpoint unauthorized changes to servers reduces the time required for root-cause analysis of application errors.

Version Control

Central repository that tracks all deployment and configuration data for reference, reconstruction, and to automate rollback to previous states.

Logging and Reporting

Detailed logs of every action taken by the system across all applications and managed servers provides complete audit history of every change made to every server.

Native Windows Support

For COM+ components, no XML editing is required in order to install COM+ components as either InteractiveUser or a particular User and Password.

Windows System Reboot

Many applications require that a server be rebooted during or after software installation. Plans include steps that can reboot a Microsoft Windows server.