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Lesson # 9

HP UCMDB 8.0 Essentials

View Manager


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Lesson Objectives

In this lesson, you will learn how to:

Navigate the areas of View Manager including the Definition

and Preview area

Use View Manager to create a view

Describe the purpose and use of grouping by CI type, TQLnode and attribute

Use grouping strategies to organize a view

Describe the purpose and use of folding and relationship

folding rules Use folding and relationship folding to organize a view

Describe and use the visible property on a node

About this Lesson


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View Manager Overview

View Manager is used to Create a new or edit an existing View

Create and edit the view definition

Create and edit a View TQL

Define grouping and folding rules for view organization

Preview a View

Manage Views through the View Explorer

Organize viewsActivate and Deactivate a view

Export a view to XML

Delete, Save As

View Manager Introduction


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View ManagerView Manager Walkthrough


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View Manager Definition PageView Manager Walkthrough

Views

Explore

r

CI Type

Selector

Editing

Pane

Information

Pane


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View Manager Preview Page

Generating a View Preview

View Explorer -> Select the GeneratePreview Button or right-click and selectthe Preview menu.

The Result contains a list view and a

topology view of all CIs retrieved by theView TQL.

View Manager Walkthrough


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Understanding View Components

View Definition

Basic View properties

View Name, View Type, how often it willbe refreshed, TQL name

Query TQL request to the UCMDB to retrieve

data

Organization Rules

Grouping like kinds of data

Layering data

Labeling data

View Creation Overview


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View Definition Overview

Creates the View structure

Associates the TQL with the view

Associates other properties with the view

View Type

View persistence

Change tracking

TQL priority



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Creating A New View Definition

Create a New

View

Pattern View

(based on TQL)

Template-based

Template

Perspective

Covered in the

Modeling Studio

Chapter



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View Types

Pattern View

Built from a TQL query (new or existing). When the view is displayed or refreshed, View Manager queries the

CMDB for all elements that fit the query, and automatically updates theview with those elements.

Template-Based View

Based on a TQL query, to which a template is then applied.

The template is a reusable view that includes parameters, folding rules,and other settings, which are saved as part of the template.

This enables you to build multiple views with the same settings withouthaving to re-enter the setting information.

Perspective-Based View

Built by selecting a collection of individual CIs and applying a specialtype of template, known as a perspective

Instance views, which no longer exist, are replaced by perspectivebased views. Perspective based views cannot be viewed or edited inView Manager, but Modeling Studio instead.



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New View Wizard Welcome and GeneralView Creation Overview


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New View Wizard Base SQL DefinitionView Creation Overview


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New View Wizard Viewing OptionsView Creation Overview


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New View Wizard Wizard CompletionView Creation Overview


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TQL Query Review

Created with TQL

Define the CITs and relationships to

be used to request data from the

CMDB

May be filtered by conditions to restrict

the objects in the result set

Node properties

Relationship properties

May be new or pre-existing



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Creating a View TQL

Created in View

Manager or Query

Manager

Nodes

Relationships

Conditions

Attributes

Select Identities Cardinality

Properties

Include Subtypes



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Organization Rules Overview

Determines how nodes and links willbe displayed in the view

Defines the map layers to be

displayed

Accomplished with grouping and

folding techniques

May be applied to nodes andrelationships



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Managing View OrganizationProvides a clear presentation for understanding managed

data

Ability to design self explanatory views for impact analysis

and problem isolation

Respond to multiple business objectives while reusing thesame TQL

Required to manage limitations of number of CIs in a view

(900 by default)

Various options to modify appearance, number of layers

in a view, and drill-down path

Grouping, Folding Rules, Relationship Rules



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Grouping Overview

Group like CIs together for organizational purposes

Three different types of grouping are available

Group by Configuration Item Type

Group by TQL Node

Group by Attribute

Grouping can be combined or used standalone

Grouping can be used on nodes or relationships or both



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Adding Grouping to a Node

Right-Click -> Select Node Grouping



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Grouping by Configuration Item Type

All CIs of the sametype placed into a

group

Minimum in group

Group Label


Vi C i O i


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Grouping Hosts by CI TypeView Creation Overview

Vi C ti O i


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Grouping Web Servers by CI TypeView Creation Overview

Vi C ti O i


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Grouping by Node

All CIs of the sametype grouped by the

node definition criteria

Minimum in group

Group Label


Vi C ti O i


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Expanding Grouped Web Servers NodesView Creation Overview

Vi C ti O i


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Grouping by Attribute

CIs grouped by valueof selected attribute

CIs may be of different

types

Minimum in group

Group Label




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Grouping by Application Listening Port AttributeView Creation Overview



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Grouping by Host OS AttributeView Creation Overview



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Adding Grouping to a RelationshipView Creation Overview



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Grouping Relationship by TQL NodeView Creation Overview



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Rules implemented to simplify views

Provides layering of TQL results

A solution to Too many CIs to display error

A graph cannot present more than 900 objects.

Two types of rules

Folding (applied to a link between two nodes)

Relationship (applied to a link class across the entire view)

Folding rules override relationship rules when both are

defined for a view


View Rules Overview



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Defines layering for twonodes connected by a

specific relationship

Arranges the CIs in multiple

layers

Defines the position of CIs in

each layer

Rules

Parent, Child, Left Sibling,

Right Sibling, None


Folding Rules Overview



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Using the Parent RuleView Creation Overview



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Using the Child RuleView Creation Overview



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Parent and Child ExamplesView Creation Overview



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Left Sibling Rule ExampleView Creation Overview



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Relationship Rules Overview

Relationship rules are an alternative to folding rules

Relationship folding rules are applied to CI relationships

across the view

Sibling and child rules are allowed together

Parent and child rules are not allowed together

Right and left sibling rules are not allowed together




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Relationship Rule Defined

Information Pane

Folding Rule Tabdescribes the folding rule

in place

Relationship Rule

Relationship always

begins at node 1 and ends

at node 2

Can be edited

Rule Options

Click on Edit button in

Folding Rule Tab

Parent, Right Sibling, LeftSiblin Child None




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Using the Relationship Parent Rule



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Using the Relationship Child Rule

GROUPING AND FOLDING RULES: ACTIVITY


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Identifying Organization StrategiesGROUPING AND FOLDING RULES:ACTIVITY

What grouping and folding rules are in use?

GROUPING AND FOLDING RULES:ACTIVITY


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Identifying Organization Strategies

What grouping and folding rules are in use?



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Visible Property Overview

Node or relationship property selected by default

When deselected, the node or relationship will not appear

in the view

Used to manage nodes or relationships necessary in theTQL but which may not enhance the view if visible



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Editing Visible Property



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Using Visible Property



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Managing Views in View Explorer

View Explorer is used to Organize views for easy navigation in IT Universe

Manager and Topology View application

Activate and Deactivate a view to make it availableor unavailable to the system

Export and import Views in XML format



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Organizing Views in View Manager

Folder New, Rename,

Delete

Views

New View

Definition

Save As

Import/ Export

to/from XML

Properties

Chapter Review


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Review Questions

1. What view property ensures a view isalways loaded in memory?

2. What view organization rules would you

choose to reduce the amount of nodes

displayed in a view?

3. What view organization rules would you

choose to reduce the number of links

between nodes in a view?

4. What is the difference between folding rules

and relationship folding rules?

5. Which view organization rules would you

use to ensure that the TQL result is shown

in layers?

Chapter Summary


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Summary

Key points in this lesson

View Manager enables you to define a managed view

A view TQL is associated with each view

Organization rules are used to define the display structure

of CIs in a view

Grouping and folding are two ways to organize CI

information in a view

Grouping may be defined by CI type, TQL node, or attribute

Relationship folding rules are applied to the view and

folding rules are applied to a specific relationship in the

view

Chapter Exercises


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Exercises

Please complete the lesson exercises in your book.

After everyone is finished, the instructor will review the

answers.


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