deployment model - detail

[bholey]

Hi
I am using EA 4.51 - desktop edition.
I am trying to put as much detail on my nodes in the deployment diagrams. I have defined web servers, application servers, database servers etc as individual nodes.

How does one add information such as

- geographic location of nodes
- hardware used for nodes
- no of physical instances of the nodes, e.g 2 web servers, 2 app servers, one database server.

Is it via tagged values or attributes.
Or is it some other built in feature.
Tagged values sounded reasonable. however when I generate the documentation it doesnt appear on the generated docs.

Thanks
Bholey

[mikewhit]

Don't forget Run State ... see EAExample - amount of memory etc. (Thanks Thomas for telling me last year !)

[thomaskilian]

We never stop learning

[sargasso]

I found using diagram frames a good thing for the geographic distn model.
Hardware summarised in the run state and described fully in the notes. Stereotypes for the server "type".

At summary level model I used multiplicity for the node instances (thanks TK) even though it doesnt show.  At detail level models each instance is shown (otherwise IP addresses etc cant be run stated.

bruce

[bholey]

Thanks a lot
Run State was very useful.

Sargasso.. what did you mean by diagram frames.. could you please expand.

Thanks
Vivek

[thomaskilian]

...the node instances ..

now show up with 5.0

Regarding diagram frames: you can drag a diagram completely onto a second one (from the browser). You are then asked how to, and Diagram Frame is one possibility. What you see then is a diagram within a diagram. The boundary can represent some kind of border. Never thought of it that way, but I surely will try (thanks Bruce for the hint)