Platform Host Sets

The provisioning system includes a hierarchy of nested host sets that are based on the OS platforms of hosts. The top host set is any, which includes hosts running any of the supported OS platforms.

Platform host sets are used to limit the hosts that a particular component or resource may be installed on. Platform host sets typically contain a host search that matches one or more platform-specific properties. The provisioning system includes several predefined platform host sets (and associated host searches).

Each platform host set that is included with the provisioning system will be prefixed with system# (for example system#Windows 2000 Server). The prefix indicates that they are defined by the system plug-in.