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Provisioning
In telecommunication, provisioning is the act of acquiring telecommunications service from the submission of the requirement through the activation of service.
Note 1: Provisioning includes all associated transmission, wiring, and equipment.
Note 2: In NS/EP telecommunication services, "provisioning" equates to "initiation" and includes altering the state of an existing priority service or capability.
Source: From Federal Standard 1037C
The concept of provisioning has spread to more general information technology tasks, not just those associated with telecommunications services and infrastructure:
- Server provisioning refers to selecting a server from a pool of available servers; loading the appropriate software (operating system, device drivers, middleware, and applications); appropriately customizing and configuring the system, software, and associated network and storage resources; then finally starting the server and its newly-loaded software. This makes the system ready for operation.
- User provisioning refers to the maintenance of records corresponding to employees, customers or other recipients of a service (such as electronic mail) in a directory service or similar database for use by identity management software.
- "Provisioning" often appears in the context of virtualization, orchestration, and other dynamic datacenter concepts.
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