Managing models

Services and application modeling home page components

The Services and Application modeling home page shows totals for models in the following states:

• Any State—A count of models in any state.
• Not published—Start anywhere models that have been saved, but not published.

• Review suggested—Sometimes for start anywhere models, automatic model updates would change a model a great deal, either in one single change or as a result of a gradual expansion over time. When BMC Helix Discovery detects that an update would cause a large change, it suppresses most of the change, and sets the application model into a state of Review Suggested. When the model enters Review Suggested, only new nodes directly connected to nodes that were previously in the model are added – any nodes down-stream of those new nodes are suppressed. Once the model is in Review Suggested, BMC Helix Discoveryno longer updates it during scanning. See Lifecycle of a model for more details.

• Published—Blueprint or start anywhere models that have been published. Blueprint models are always published, once created, they have no other state.

• Review suggested—Start anywhere models that have been published, and require a user review in the same way as the user review described for unpublished models.

• CAM models—Models created using CAM.

• Other BAIs—Other BAIs.

The totals are links to:

• list views, the Model Definition List:
  
• or node pages, the Model Definition page, that show the models or BAIs:
  

The totals content is displayed in tabs which enable you to view totals for:

• All—totals for the BMC Helix Discovery system.

• Favorites—totals for those models marked as your favorites.

When you have saved a model, it is considered a favorite, which is denoted by a blue star under the workflow bar. Clicking the star toggles whether the model is a favorite or not. A blue star shows a favorite, a gray star shows a model that is not a favorite. You can also mark existing models or model definitions as favorites on their view pages.

The modeling home page also provides an activity stream which shows a list of modeling related activities for the system.

• Click a row in the activity stream to view the application model.
• Some rows have details links, for example for an operation where nodes were removed from a model. Click details to see an activity record of that operation. For example:
  

You can also see a compact view of application modeling home page on the UI home page.

To view a service or application model 

To view a service or application model:

1. Click the category (Not published, Review suggested, Published) from the totals list containing the model you want to view.
2. If the category includes multiple kinds of model (Business Application, Business Service, or Technical Service), select the model kind from the list.
3. Select the model you want to view from the list. 
4. The model type (Blueprint or SAM) can be determined from the model heading.
   • Blueprint models have the following heading, with a RULES icon after the name:
     
     Blueprint models, once created, are always in the published state. 
   • Start anywhere models have the following heading, with a SAM icon after the name:
     
   • Models, whether Blueprint or SAM that have been synced from a consolidator have a SYNC icon. They also have a Maintain Locally button to take local control of the model and break the synchronization link with the sending consolidation system. See Consolidation for more information. 
     

To create or import service and application models

You can create or import application models from the Services and Application modeling home page. To do this, click Create/Import.

To create a model using search

When you have clicked Create/Import, the default tab shown is Create Using Search. This directs you to the search box. You can start modeling anywhere in BMC Helix Discovery. See Start-anywhere-modeling for more information.

To create a service model by using blueprints

Blueprints are definitions of simple rules that can identify the nodes within services.

• To create and modify models using existing Blueprints, click Blueprint Service Editor. See Modeling-services-by-using-blueprints for more information.
• To add new and modify existing Blueprints, click Manage Blueprint Definitions. See Managing-blueprint-definitions for more information.

To create an empty model

You can create an empty application model. Once you have created it, you can add nodes to it by searching the data, visualizing it, and then adding the data to the empty model using Model > Add to Existing. 

To do this:

1. Click Create Empty to create an empty model.
2. Enter a name in the name field, and click OK.
   The empty model is created.

To create a Legacy CAM model

You can also start to create a Legacy CAM model. The start point for Legacy CAM is to create a group.

To do this:

1. Click Create Legacy CAM to create an empty group.
2. Enter a name for the group and click Create.
   The empty group is created and the group page displays. See  Creating manual groups and in the Legacy-CAM documentation, see Creating the prototype application map.

To export a model

You can export models in the following ways:

• From the Model Definition List.

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   1. Select the model, or models, from the list
   2. From the Actions menu, select Export Model Definitions.
   3. The model or models are exported in zip archives.

• From the Model Definition page. 

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   1. From the Actions menu, select  Export Model.
   2. The model is exported in a file named as the model definition and with a .model suffix.

To import a model

You can import models from the Services and Application modeling home page. To do this:

1. Click Create/Import.
2. Click the Import tab.
3. Click Browse, and in your file browser, locate the name of the file to import.
4. Click OK.
5. Click Apply.
   A results page displays showing the completion of a successful import, or error messages if the import failed.