View Manager

Lesson # 9
HP UCMDB 8.0 Essentials

2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

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About this Lesson

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, TQL
node 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

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View Manager Introduction

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 views
Activate and Deactivate a view
Export a view to XML
Delete, Save As

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View Manager Walkthrough

View Manager

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View Manager Walkthrough

View Manager Definition Page

Editing
Pane

Views
Explore Information CI Type
r Pane Selector

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View Manager Walkthrough

View Manager Preview Page

Generating a View Preview
View Explorer -> Select the Generate
Preview Button or right-click and select
the Preview menu.
The Result contains a list view and a
topology view of all CIs retrieved by the
View TQL.

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View Creation Overview

Understanding View Components

View Definition
Basic View properties
View Name, View Type, how often it will
be refreshed, TQL name

Query
TQL request to the UCMDB to retrieve
data

Organization Rules
Grouping like kinds of data
Layering data
Labeling data

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View Creation Overview

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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View Creation Overview

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 Creation Overview

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 the
view 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 without
having to re-enter the setting information.
Perspective-Based View
Built by selecting a collection of individual CIs and applying a special
type of template, known as a perspective
Instance views, which no longer exist, are replaced by perspective
based views. Perspective based views cannot be viewed or edited in
View Manager, but Modeling Studio instead.

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View Creation Overview

New View Wizard Welcome and General

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New View Wizard Base SQL Definition

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New View Wizard Viewing Options

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New View Wizard Wizard Completion

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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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View Creation Overview

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 will

be displayed in the view

Defines the map layers to be

displayed

Accomplished with grouping and

folding techniques

May be applied to nodes and

relationships

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Managing View Organization

Provides 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 the

same 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 same

type placed into a
group
Minimum in group
Group Label

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Grouping Hosts by CI Type

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Grouping Web Servers by CI Type

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Grouping by Node

All CIs of the same

type grouped by the
node definition criteria

Minimum in group

Group Label

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Expanding Grouped Web Servers Nodes

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Grouping by Attribute

CIs grouped by value

of selected attribute

CIs may be of different

types

Minimum in group

Group Label

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Grouping by Application Listening Port Attribute

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Grouping by Host OS Attribute

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Adding Grouping to a Relationship

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Grouping Relationship by TQL Node

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View Rules Overview

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

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Folding Rules Overview

Defines layering for two

nodes 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

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Using the Parent Rule

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Using the Child Rule

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Parent and Child Examples

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Left Sibling Rule Example

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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 Tab
describes 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, Left
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Using the Relationship Parent Rule

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Using the Relationship Child Rule

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GROUPING AND FOLDING RULES: ACTIVITY
Identifying Organization Strategies

What grouping and folding rules are in use?

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GROUPING AND FOLDING RULES: ACTIVITY
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 the

TQL 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 available

or 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

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Chapter Review

Review Questions

1. What view property ensures a view is

always 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?

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Chapter Summary

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
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Chapter Exercises

Exercises

Please complete the lesson exercises in your book.

After everyone is finished, the instructor will review the

answers.

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