Provisioning environment

The benefit of using a provisioning job is that you can run multiple steps against one or more remote hosts. A provisioning environment on a Supervisor provides these provisioning features the: creation of provisioning jobs to run a sequence of steps, monitoring the execution of these jobs on a set of devices, and reviewing job results.

There are two types of provisioning jobs:

One-time provisioning jobs is for executing special, infrequent tasks, such as updating license files or software modules in selected (or all) remote hosts. A one-time provisioning job uses the Niagara Network Job Builder (the default view of the ProvisioningNwExt) to configure sequences of provisioning steps against one or more stations in a Supervisor’s NiagaraNetwork.
Unlike prototype jobs, a one-time provisioning job cannot be saved as a component for reuse.
Regularly scheduled provisioning jobs are especially useful for large enterprises with hundreds of remote hosts. For this type of job you create and configure a NiagaraNetworkJobPrototype component, which can be saved and reused. The job prototype allows you to configure job retention, which is not available when creating a one-time job. For job retention purposes you should run a backup stations step only using a prototype job.

Provisioning jobs run concurrently across multiple stations. By default, the number of parallel executions is derived based on the Supervisor's hardware platform.

Provisioning environment

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