Hosts

The N1 Service Provisioning System software makes it easier to manage servers or hosts by modeling them as objects and storing the model in the host database. The provisioning software enables you to define host types, so you can classify hosts by their configuration or function. The software also enables you to create host sets–groups of hosts that you can manage as a single unit. Host searches enable you to dynamically group hosts based on current attributes. These host management functions, combined with the component and plan objects described above, significantly reduce the complexity of deploying, configuring, and analyzing applications in data centers. To enable the provisioning software to work with a host it must have a Remote Agent installed, registered in the database, and prepared by the provisioning software for use. Hosts that have gone through all of these processes are also called Nodes. For more information on Hosts see Chapter 4, Hosts.