Chapter 5. Ease the Chaos with Automated Provisioning

Large corporates typically have tens of thousands of systems, including databases, database servers, and middleware application servers. In such a complex environment, the operating systems used may be different, and database versions may also vary considerably. For example, there may be a database firm using the Oracle Database Enterprise Edition (EE) 10g version on Linux servers, and another firm with Oracle 11g databases on Solaris. Middleware application servers may also vary considerably. You may have WebLogic servers or other application servers, and these may also use different Operating Systems with several versions.

Typically, manual methods would have been used to create the myriad ...

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