Create a Standardization View

On Dragon1, you can report the impact of change visually by creating a standardization view.

Suppose you have hardware and you need to know how much it is compliant to standards and what is compliant to standards. By looking at a view of a model, the impact of the lack of standardization can be much better analyzed and solved than by looking at text and data in a document.

Create a Standardization View

To create a standardization view:

• First create a model and enter the values for certain attributes in the fields.
• On Dragon1, you can make use of loosely coupling next to hard fields. Just fill in the description of what the attributes and values are, like this:
  • .Manufacturer='Dell'.
  Precede an attribute name with a dot and place the value between quotes.
• Next you add a rule entity to your model.
• In the description field of the rule you enter the actual rule statement and you give the rule a descriptive name for the model, like this:
  • Server.Manufacturer='Dell'
• Now you create a view and configure the rule of the view so that all servers in the model are matched against the rule. Do that like this:
  • Select the view entity in the Explorer
  • Click Edit and enter the rule data on the behavior TAB:
  • Rule Event: onload
  • Rule Condition: Match(Server.*.Descr,Rule.Rule0.Descr);
  • Rule Action: True=show(name);False=fill(Server,red),show(name);
  • Click OK to save the view data
  You have told the view to match all servers against the rule0 in the model (and because the descr field contains a manufacturer standard, this will be matched.
• Select the view
• You should see a server that does not have the correct manufacturer colored red.

Extending the example

This is a simple example, but it is meant to show the strength and flexibility of what you can do.

If you add a server to the model, for example, change the manufacturer of a server or change the rule, the view will automatically be updated.

Suppose you have another model showing the companies in a group. You can use this mechanism to show what companies in your group have IT assets that are not compliant with your standards.

Example Screenshots

This screenshot shows a hardware model including a rule entity with the description set to a certain manufacturer standard.

This screenshot shows the configuration of a view so it will match entities to certain contents of a field. In this case, the contents of the description field. But you can also create and use user-defined fields.

This screenshot shows the view, as a result of applying the configured rule to the model.