Provisioning FAQs

What is meant by provisioning?

Provisioning allows an administrator, from a Supervisor station, to configure the automation of one or more pre-defined tasks against one or more (potentially many) stations in the Supervisor’s NiagaraNetwork. A provisioning job records results, which you can refer to later.

Tasks would otherwise need to be performed manually by a user with Workbench, often by making an individual platform connection to each host. All provisioning work is performed by the Supervisor station, as one or more provisioning jobs.

What type of pre-defined tasks can provisioning perform?

Among other things, a provisioning job can perform station backups, install software, update licenses, copy files, install and configure certificates, change default credentials, install templates, and configure properties.

Can a provisioning job run a custom program

Yes. You can write custom program code to execute as a provisioning robot. This feature makes it possible to change the station database programmatically.

Is there any other sort of provisioning besides “provisioning Niagara”?

The information in this document applies only to the niagaraDriver for hosts represented in the NiagaraNetwork of a Supervisor station. However, with the separation of provisioning functions into different modules, reflected by a BatchJobService as well as a network-level ProvisioningNwExt, other driver types may support provisioning in the future.