Supported Services in Sun OTP 2.0

Sun OTP provides platform application and security services. Platform services are focused on operational and lifecycle management of base platform elements. Application centric services are focused on operational and lifecycle management of hosted NEP applications.

Sun OTP supports the following services:

• Provisioning Service

• Management Service

• Availability Service

• Security Service

Provisioning Service

Provisioning service consists of platform and application provisioning services.

Platform Provisioning

The platform provisioning service enables end-to-end provisioning of Sun OTP compute elements, including bare metal and firmware provisioning, operating system provisioning, and provisioning of Sun OTP software components. Operations supported by the platform provisioning service are identical to the application provisioning operations, with the exception that the operations apply to platform software instead of application software.

Application Provisioning

The application provisioning service enables end-to-end provisioning of NEP applications, including initial application deployment, application upgrade, and application patching. The application provisioning services are capable of deploying applications on a single system, or on a group of systems that follow a set of defined grouping semantics. They are also capable of deploying both single and multitier applications.

The application provisioning service supports the following operations:

• Creating application deployment descriptions

• Modifying application deployment descriptions

• Deleting application deployment descriptions

• Provisioning applications on hosts

• Provisioning a multitier application

• Deploying check-point software on hosts

• Removing applications from hosts

• Removing a multitier application

• Rolling back to previous version of applications

• Deploying query applications on hosts

Management Service

Management service consists of platform management and application management services.

Platform Management

The platform management service enables monitoring and management of the Sun OTP compute elements. This service includes monitoring and managing bare metal hardware and deployed operating system instances. The platform management service can manage both stand-alone systems and two or more systems grouped together into an administrative group.

Application Management

The application management service enables management of NEP applications. Supported operations include application health monitoring, failure recovery, and migration from one Sun OTP instance to another.

Availability Service

The availability service consists of platform availability and application availability services.

Platform Availability

The platform availability service enables availability of the Sun OTP compute elements.

Application Availability

The application availability service enables basic lifecycle and availability management of NEP applications. Supported lifecycle operations include application registration, activation, quiescence, and deactivation.

The following operations are supported by the application lifecycle and availability management services:

• Creating application manifests

• Modifying application manifests

• Deleting application manifests

• Creating application dependencies

• Modifying application dependencies

• Deleting application dependencies

• Registering applications

• Starting applications

• Stopping applications

• Querying application state

• Migrating applications from host A to host B

• Restarting applications on host X

• Fail over applications from host A to host B

Security Service

The security service is used to secure NEP applications by authenticating Web interface through a SSO feature. Once you log in to a web-based administration interface in Sun OTP, you can access the other web-based administration interfaces without any reauthentication. Additionally, you can use the Solaris Security Toolkit (SST) driver to harden the Sun OTP application hosting environment (AHE) to improve the overall network security.