Overview of Sun N1 Service Provisioning System

The N1 SPS product is an object oriented, XML-based, distributed environment to solve enterprise system configuration, service provisioning, and application deployment needs. The provisioning system provides an extensible framework and environment that at a minimum provides the following functionality:

• Common framework to build service provisioning automation

• Maintains an audit log of changes over time

• Compares the current state of target hosts with their expected state

• Simulates a change to identify configuration problems

• Implements a set of rules to govern automation execution

• Notifies system administrators of problems and actions

• Automatically manages version control

The N1 SPS software implements a distributed environment in which object-oriented components are authored in XML scripts and orchestrated to follow execution plans for distribution, provisioning, and installation needs. For more information about N1 SPS basic concepts and terminology, see Chapter 1, N1 Service Provisioning System 5.1 Overview, in Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.1 Installation Guide.