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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 databaseA database is an information set with a regular structure. Any set of information may be called a database. Nevertheless, the term was invented to refer to computerised data, and is used almost exclusively in computing. Sometimes it is used to refer to no for use by identity managementAn identity management system coordinates the interaction between software systems and backend environments that maintain user profile, authentication, and access control information. Identity management can come in the form of frameworks that abstract fr software.
- "Provisioning" often appears in the context of virtualizationIn computing, virtualization involves the process of presenting computing resources in ways that users and applications can easily get value out of them, rather than presenting them in a way dictated by their implementation, geographic location, or physic, orchestrationOrchestration describes the automated arrangement, coordination, and management of complex computer systems, middleware, and services. It is often discussed as having an inherent intelligence (trait) or even implicitly autonomic control, but those are lar, and other dynamic datacenter concepts.
