Provisioning service consists of platform and application provisioning services.
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.
The application provisioning service enables end-to-end provisioning of (NEP) applications, including initial application deployment, application upgrade, and application patching. 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. These services are also capable of deploying both single and multi-tier applications.
The following operations are supported by the application provisioning service:
Creating application deployment descriptions
Modifying application deployment descriptions
Deleting application deployment descriptions
Provisioning applications on hosts
Provisioning a multi-tier application
Inspecting deployed software on hosts at a specific point
Removing applications from hosts
Removing a multi-tier application
Rolling back to previous version of applications
Queryingdeployed applications on hosts