N1 Service Provisioning System 4.1 User's Guide

Managing Hosts

Your data center may include tens, hundreds, or even thousands of hosts. To prepare to manage these hosts, answer the questions listed in the table below.

The table below lists questions that will help you plan your management of hosts.

Table 2–4 Managing Hosts.


Question	Action
How do you classify your hosts? What classifications would make them easier to identify and work with?	For each type of host, define a host type. See Working With Host Types.
What hosts are you working with?	Enter each host in the repository by defining it. See Working with Hosts.
How would you group hosts to make them easier to work with?	For each group, define a host set. [To define a host set based on a host type, use a host search as described in Chapter 4, Hosts. ] You can define host sets based on different types of criteria, such as location, purpose, and configuration. A host can belong to more than one host set. Host sets may overlap and may contain other host sets. See Working with Host Sets.
What query executed in real time would identify a group of hosts needed for a particular operation?	To record a query that you will use to identify hosts, define a host search. See Working With Host Searches.