Preparing a Host

Before the N1 Service Provisioning System software can work with a physical host, a Remote Agent must be installed on the physical host and the physical host must be prepared. The provisioning software prepares a host by installing OS-specific utilities on the host's Remote Agent. The HTML user interface gives you the option of preparing host when you save its definition. You can also select hosts listed on the Hosts page and prepare them by running the prepare command. The Hosts page identifies hosts that haven't been prepared, yet, by highlighting them in yellow.

Once a host has been prepared, you can perform operations with it, such as running comparisons and performing installations.