Preface

The Sun N1^TM Service Provisioning System 5.2 Operation and Provisioning Guide provides procedures for deploying components and comparing hosts, host sets, and components.

Who Should Use This Book

This book is for users of the N1 Service Provisioning System software who are responsible for running plans and ensuring that systems in their environment have the correct resources installed.

How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1, Deploying Components describes the different mechanisms available to deploy resources to hosts and host sets.

Chapter 2, Running Comparisons describes how to create and run the three different types of comparisons.

Related Books

The following books belong to the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 documentation collection. All books listed below are available on docs.sun.com.

Table P–1 Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 Documentation

Application	Title
Software Installation	Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 Installation Guide
System Administration	Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 System Administration Guide
Plan and component creation	Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 Plan and Component Developer’s Guide
Command reference	Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 Command-Line Interface Reference Manual
XML Schema Reference	Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 XML Schema Reference Guide
Release Notes	Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 Release Notes
Plug-in Development	Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 Plug-in Development Guide

Documentation, Support, and Training

The Sun web site provides information about the following additional resources:

• Documentation

• Support

• Training

Typographic Conventions

The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.

Table P–2 Typographic Conventions

Typeface	Meaning	Example
AaBbCc123	The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output	Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% you have mail.
AaBbCc123	What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output	machine_name% su Password:
aabbcc123	Placeholder: replace with a real name or value	The command to remove a file is rm filename.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. A cache is a copy that is stored locally. Do not save the file. Note: Some emphasized items appear bold online.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default UNIX® system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P–3 Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell	machine_name%
C shell for superuser	machine_name#
Bourne shell and Korn shell	$
Bourne shell and Korn shell for superuser	#