Unrestrictive Host Locking

This release of the N1 Service Provisioning System provides new functionality in the area of host locking. In previous releases, the N1 Service Provisioning System locked a host while executing steps on that host. To prevent plans interfering with each other, no other plans or subplans could be executed against a host while the host was locked by a plan. Now, you can elect to use less restrictive host locking.

This feature introduces the following enhancements to the N1 SPS XML schema.

• The implicitLocking attribute to the <simpleSteps> element indicates what type of host locking to use for the contained steps.

• The <lockHost> step indicates that the target host should be locked for the duration of the step.