Server Groups

Purpose

Definition of Server Groups

Menu

Administration ⇒ Customizing

Tasks for an initial basic setup

Mandatory

Figure 2–2 Server Groups

Server Groups, groups of physical hosts, allow you to split your landscape into administrative units. This splitting is reflected in the GUI. You always work inside a Server Group. Your actions are limited to the hosts belonging to the server group.

Define Server Groups

• Name – Short name of the Server Group

• Description – Description of the Server Group

Be careful when deleting a server group. You lose all physical hosts including their settings and referenced data. For example, N1 AA Analyzer cube data. For more information, see Chapter 3, N1 AA Analyzer. In order to keep these physical hosts, assign the hosts to another server group before deletion.

Physical Hosts

Purpose

Define hosts of the N1 AA landscape and assign them to Server Groups.

Menu

Administration ⇒ Customizing

Tasks for an initial basic setup

Mandatory

Figure 2–3 Physical Hosts

Maintain all physical hosts that are part of your N1 AA landscape.

• Physical host: Hostname (IP name) of the server

• Server Group: Assign the host to an existing group

• Date import (yes or no)

  • yes (default): The performance data of this host is regularly imported into the database by the import job. For more information, see Data Imports. This is the normal case.

  • no: This host's data is not imported. The import job ignores this host. Use this behavior in special situations. For example, if you know that the host is unavailable for a long period.

• OS provisioning (yes or no)

  • yes (default): This host is available in the N1 AA Builder as a target host for OS provisioning.

  • no: This host is locked for OS provisioning.

• SW provisioning (yes or no)

  • yes (default): This host is available in the N1 AA Builder as a target host for SW provisioning.

  • no: This host is locked for SW provisioning.

Deleting a physical host erases these settings and all data related to this entry. For example, N1 AA Analyzer cube data. For more information, see Chapter 3, N1 AA Analyzer.

Attention: For N1 AA Builder - OS Provisioning only

Using OS Provisioning in N1 AA, the selected target hostname will automatically be extended by the suffix –target. This means that the resulting installation target is hostname–target . This is in line with the default settings within the N1 SPS OSP Plug–in. Do not modify these default settings within SPS. Otherwise, OS Provisioning does not work with the N1AA Builder.

For more information on how to manage hosts in the N1 SPS environment, see Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 System Administration Guide and Sun N1 Service Provisioning System User’s Guide for OS Provisioning Plug-In 3.1.