That's just it. You'd use all 3 views. Universe is for the topology, Location for the geography, and TopOrg for ownership. The first two are straight-forward, but the third can be carved up whichever way makes most sense to this customer; departments, divisions, regions, however they might be organized.
When something goes down, these 3 views collectively identify what, where, and who is impacted, respectively. As for multiple landscapes, there must be some logical division there as well. Perhaps each landscape represents a particular location or organization. The bottom line is that it's not a question of which view to use. To get the most out of Spectrum, you'd be using all of them. From: Calvin Lane [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 11:38 AM To: spectrum Subject: [spectrum] Universe vs World vs TopOrg Greetings SPECTRUM experts, I have a design/methodology/best practice type question. When creating topology views for your customers, what criteria do you use to determine the most appropriate view to develop? I've been in environments where everything was in the Universe while World and TopOrg were left empty. I've also been in environments where there were devices in all of these views. I know that devices in the Universe can be copied to World and/or TopOrg and displayed there. I was just wondering from a best practice perspective what are your considerations prior to locating devices that have been modeled in a fresh environment. In other words, when building the views how do you factor in ip addresses, physical location of devices, geography, etc. Especially as it pertains to environments where there are multiple landscapes. Thanks. Regards, Calvin Lane [email protected] * --To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected] --- To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected]
