Saju

N1 Service Provisioning System (N1SPS)

Monday Jul 30, 2007

Here is my blog on SPS

N1 Service Provisioning is a application/service which help you to Install/Monitor/Upgrade/virtualize the Opearting systems and applications on 1000's of hosts across the geos in heterogeneous environments.

N1 Service Provisioning System is capable of automating application provisioning through "One-Touch" installation, configuration, and updating thousands of servers. This is a huge value proposition for the customers for it drastically reduces the deployment time from weeks or months to days or hours and thereby reduces costs.

N1 Service Provisioning System is a comprehensive application provisioning tool that eliminates the need for custom scripts. N1 Service Provisioning System's Application-Aware approach to provisioning enables data center personnel to think and plan in terms of services and application components, rather than individual files and custom scripts. The result is streamlined, consistent, and accelerated data center operations.

Do I need to use this software?

Do you want to automate the installation and configuration of OS?

Apply the patches across many hosts in different geo's?

Install Applications across the number of hosts or datacentres?

Install the rpm's/patches across the number of hosts or datacentres?

Would like to install the solaris zones and apps over zones?

Need to virtulalize your SAP deployments across the hosts depends on load? And after all,

Do you want to save the time,errors in deployment and need to reduce the Operationg cost? - all by "One touch" mechanism

If your answer is "yes" for any of the above question , you can start using SPS and It's FREE!!!

What inside SPS?

-Plans

A plan is defined by an xml-based file that contains a set of instructions for deploying one or more components to one or more hosts. Each execution plan step is an action which is performed on a component.

Example: A simple plan which will reboot the host if you run this plan.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<executionPlan xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' name='wrstep' version='5.2' xsi:schemaLocation='http://www.sun.com/schema/SPS plan.xsd' xmlns='http://www.sun.com/schema/SPS'>
   <simpleSteps>
       <reboot timeout='1'></reboot>
   </simpleSteps>
</executionPlan>

-Components

A component is a deployable object within the N1 Service provisioning System software. A component can be a single object,such as file or a Windows registry key. A component can also be a collection of files that represent a specific entity , such as a set of binaries,configuration files,and data files that make up a web server.

Example:

1)One or more files/directories

2)A file archive such as EAR, WAR or COM

- Plugins

Plugins are packaged solutions that uses plans and components and extends the provisioning capabilty of the product for a specific platform,application, or environment. Its easy way to provision the application. System administrators can easily deploy the applications using plugins.

Example: Available plugins

1) Oracle 10g plugin - To install Oracle 10g DB and APP server

2) Weblogic plugin - To install Weblogic

3) Websphere plugin - To install Websphere

4) OSP - To install OS on the hardware boxes and configurations

5) Linux rpm- - To install rpm's on the linux boxes

6) Solaris plugin - To apply patches/packages + zones in solaris 10

7) Java Appserver - To install Java Appserver + Webserver

- Modeler

Its an easy tool(IDE) for writing plans and components. Using the modeler you can write the complex plans and components quickly. Not only that even you can directly check in /check out the from/to your production/test server from your own desktop. This is a wonderful product which have
Intensive help to write the plans, Sysntax Validation & Plan/comp checkin/checkout facilities and much more.

For more details on SPS Modeler Click here

Where can I get the SPS

You can get it for free Click Here to Download Try it out and enjoy the difference!!