Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2.1 Release Notes

What's New in the Sun N1 SPS 5.2.1 Release

This section describes the following new features in the Sun N1 SPS 5.2.1 release.

Sun N1 Advanced Architecture for SAP Solutions

The Sun N1 SPS 5.2.1 release includes the Sun N1 Advanced Architecture (Sun N1 AA) for SAP Solutions software, a series of modules for installing and administering complex SAP environments. With the Sun N1 AA software, IT operators can deploy, provision, manage, and change pools of resources and application services, and analyze the environment, all from a single Web browser interface. Sun N1 AA software delivers more business flexibility through virtualization, application and resource provisioning, monitoring, and central management.

The Sun N1 AA software includes the following modules.

N1 AA Manager – This module provides the central GUI, a Java-based Web browser interface. This includes the base components for customization, maintenance, and administration that are not directly associated with one of the functional modules.
N1 AA Analyzer – This module enables you to monitor and manage the CPU and memory usage in your environment. The N1 AA Analyzer continually monitors, collects, and displays CPU and memory utilization data on all of the servers and applications in the environment, including applications other than SAP. Once data is collected, the Analyzer provides reports on capacity planing and a graphical illustration of resource consumption.
N1 AA Builder – The N1 AA Builder is designed to quickly provision operating systems on to bare-metal servers included in your SAP environment. The pre-built models within the N1 AA Builder enable IT operators to build, configure, and update multi-tier application service models for many data center applications. This includes models for the operating systems, patches, and client software, all from a single GUI. The models are stored and centrally administered. The models can be configured for different environments.
N1 AA Deployer – N1 Advanced Architecture for SAP Solutions is a key extension of the N1 Service Provisioning System, leveraging the core provisioning and management capabilities to provide sophisticated customization specific to the SAP applications and business processes. The N1 AA Deployer module is the controller for your application services. The N1 AA Deployer enables you to start, stop, and relocate applications in a virtualized environment. This includes applications that are driven in a Sun Cluster or SAP Adaptive Computing environment. For SAP systems, the N1 AA Deployer enables you to install new SAP Application Instances or remove existing ones.

For more information about the Sun N1 AA software, see the following documents.

SAP Plug-in 1.0

The Sun N1 SPS 5.2.1 release includes the SAP plug-in 1.0 software to enable you to manage SAP systems in the Sun Cluster, SAP Adaptive Computing (AC), and default environments. The SAP plug-in provides a set of tested and supported plans and components that enable you to perform the following tasks.

Create and delete SAP components in the Sun N1 SPS database
View all SAP components
Determine the online and offline status of SAP components
Provision the SAP Application Server with a default exception file
Create a custom exception file component
Provision the SAP Application Server with a custom exception file
GDS component support

For more information about the SAP plug-in 1.0, see the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System User’s Guide for SAP Plug-In 1.0.

BEA WebLogic 9 Plug-in 1.0

The Sun N1 SPS 5.2.1 release includes the BEA WebLogic plug-in 1.0 software to enable you to easily capture, configure and deploy WebLogic Enterprise, Enterprise JavaBeans^TM (EJB) technology, and Web Applications. The WebLogic plug-in provides a set of tested and supported plans and components that enable you to perform the following tasks.

Install and configure WebLogic 9 software on the following systems.
- WebLogic Domain and Administration Server
- WebLogic Managed Server
- WebLogic Clusters
Create a WebLogic Machine to serve as a Node Manager to administer your Managed Servers and clusters.
Capture and deploy enterprise applications, web applications, and Java archive files as application archives.
Group deployment plans with specific application archive files in containers to facilitate complex application deployments.
Share J2EE libraries between applications.
Create data sources and multi data sources to configure your applications to use specific databases and connection pools.
Create and configure Java Messaging Service (JMS) services

For more information about how to use the WebLogic 9 plug-in, see Sun N1 Service Provisioning System User’s Guide for BEA WebLogic 9 Plug-in 1.0.

New Platform and OS Support for the OS Provisioning Plug-In 3.1

The OS Provisioning plug-in has been updated for the Sun N1 SPS 5.2.1 release. The OS Provisioning plug-in 3.1 includes the following changes.

Platform support for SunFire T1000/T2000 systems - The OS Provisioning plug-in 3.1 now enables you to provision the SunFire T1000/T2000 Advanced Lights Out Management (ALOM) systems. Support for the sun4v architecture type has been added to the plug-in variable sets.
SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 provisioning support - The OS Provisioning plug-in 3.1 now supports the provisioning of the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 (SLES8) operating system.

For more information about updates to the OS Provisioning plug-in 3.1, see Sun N1 Service Provisioning System User’s Guide for OS Provisioning Plug-In 3.1.

Support for Sun Java Enterprise System Web Server 7.0 Plug-In

The Sun Java Enterprise System Web Server 7.0 plug-in is included in the 5.2.1 release. The plug-in is provided in the following packages on the Sun N1 SPS 5.2.1 product media.

SUNWspsws70 (for Solaris systems)
sun-spssws70–1.0–1.noarch.rpm (for Linux systems)
sun-spssws70–1.0–1.msi (for Microsoft Windows systems)

At the time of the Sun N1 SPS 5.2.1 release, the Sun Java Enterprise System Web Server 7.0 software is not currently available. While the plug-in is provided in the N1 SPS 5.2.1 release, the plug-in has not been fully qualified yet with the Sun Java Enterprise System Web Server 7.0 software and will not be supported until the release of the Web server 7.0 software.

The documentation for the Sun JES Web Server 7.0 plug-in will be published to http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/1502.1 after the Sun JES Web Server 7.0 software is released.

Plug-In Support for Sun Java Enterprise System Application Server 8.2 Software

The Sun Java Enterprise System Application Server plug-in is included in the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 and 5.2.1 release. The plug-in is provided in the following packages on the Sun N1 SPS 5.2.1 product media.

SUNWspssas (for Solaris systems)
sun-spssas-3.0-1.noarch.rpm (for Linux systems)
sun-spssas-3.0.msi (for Microsoft Windows systems)

At the time of the Sun N1 SPS 5.2.1 release, this plug-in supports the file-based deployment of the Sun Java Enterprise System Application 8.1 software. At the time of this release, the Sun Java Enterprise System Application Server 8.2 software is not currently available, and the plug-in has not been fully qualified yet with the Sun Java Enterprise System Application Server 8.2 software. Deployment of the Sun Java Enterprise System Application Server 8.2 software, and package-based deployment of the Sun Java Enterprise System Application 8.1 software, will not be supported until the release of the application server software.

The documentation for the Sun JES Application Server plug-in will be updated on http://docs.sun.com/coll/1502.1 after the Sun JES Application Server 8.2 software is released.