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Zachman Definition

"The Distributed Systems Architecture"

This is a logical (technology neutral) model of the system implementation of the Business Logistics System depicting the types of systems facilities and controlling software at the nodes and lines (processors/operating systems, storage devices/DBMS', peripherals/drivers, lines/line operation systems, etc).

Select Perspective

The Select Perspective supports the requirements of this cell by the products of the Supply/Technical Architecture Delivery/Agree Technical Architecture Requirements/Define Execution Environment task of the Supply, Manage and Consume (SMaC) Service and Component Based Development model.

The recommended format for this model is either a UML Deployment Diagram:

 

or a more graphical representation with the information in textual form:

 

 

or as textual information in tables:

Workstations

Browser

 

COMMUNICATIONS

Web

LAN

Consultant Laptops

Browser

 

COMMUNICATIONS

Web

LAN

 

Wireless

Dial-Up

Sales PDA

Browser

 

COMMUNICATIONS

Web

Dial-Up Network

Printers

Colour

 

B&W

 

COMMUNICATIONS

LAN

Scanners

Flatbed A4

 

COMMUNICATIONS

LAN

App Server

Network Management

 

COMMUNICATIONS

Web

LAN

Web Server

Intranet Management

 

COMMUNICATIONS

Web

LAN

Dial-Up Server

Dial-Up Security

 

COMMUNICATIONS

LAN

Data Server

DBMS

 

COMMUNICATIONS

LAN

Select Solution Factory

The System Nodes can be entered into the Select Asset Manager Enterprise Model and associated with each other via the basic communication protocol; the major system facilities can be entered as components and associated with the relevant nodes:

 

Click Here to see an example of the HTML report that could be generated from this structure.

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