Provisioning

The provisioning subsystem provides support for automating provisioning of software on multiple targets. Using provisioning subsystem, the System Administrator can do initial provisioning of software, for example provisioning of Linux operating system and RAC database on a new host. Provisioning system also provides support for provisioning software from a reference installation, where Enterprise Manager can clone software from reference environment to new environment. For example, if a database instance is running on host1, Enterprise Manager can provision a new database instance on host2 by cloning the database instance on host1.

Major building blocks of provisioning subsystem are:

Deployment procedures

Deployment procedures define the steps that need to be executed to achieve a particular objective. For example, the deployment procedure for J2EE server installation defines all of the steps that need to be executed to install a J2EE server. The provisioning subsystem provides...