Versioning Considerations

The N1 SPS software enables you to capture versions of plans and components. When you modify the plans and components in your plug-in and check these objects in to your N1 SPS environment, the objects are assigned a new version number. As a part of your plug-in deployments, you can choose to use the most current version of the plug-in plans and components, or previous versions.

If a plug-in attempts to create a versioned object that matches a same typed and named object existing in the system, a new version of the object is created. The minor version of this object is incremented unless the plug-in definition explicitly defines the object as requiring a major version increment.

To avoid naming conflicts, a plug-in cannot locate versioned objects, such as components and plans, into directories that were created by other plug-ins.

The following objects are not versioned.

• Component types

• System services

• Host types

• Host searches

• Host sets

If a plug-in attempts to create a non-versioned object that matches a same typed and named existing object, the plug-in name is prepended to the name of the object to avoid naming conflicts.