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