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• Provisioning module objects are created by State.pm::initialize() when a new state object is created.
• Provisioning module objects are available within state modules and OS modules
• Provisioning module objects are not available within other types of modules for safety.

Explain:

• define what we mean by "provisioning system"
• give examples of provisioning systems
• could be bare metal, virtual, differentiated, undifferentiated, a service, a special piece of hardware, eventually VCL could provision various types of resources
• relationships among mgt nodes, computers, provisioning systems (such as computer is assigned 1 prov system at a time)
• computer.provisioningid
• provisioning table
• future: management node to provisioning mapping
• provisioning module implementation is responsible for knowing which OS interactions are necessary
  • image.pm calls provisioner->capture, new.pm calls provisioner->load, it calls OS subs as necessary

Provisioning Module Subroutines

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• Description
  • A provisioning module's load() subroutine is responsible for provisioning the node.
  • This means starting a virtual machine, loading a image to disk, or nothing in the case of the standalone lab machine.
• Expected Beginning State
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• Expected Ending State
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• Called By
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• Arguments & Calling Environment
  • Must only be called as an object method of a provisioning object ($provisioner->pre_capture()) 
  • No Arguments
• Return Values
  • 1
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  • 0
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  • Undefined
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