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.

Application Provisioning

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