[quote="jonathan.carter] All makes sense. A 'typical' (in the nicest possible way!) current-state capture and these normally take a kind of bottom up approach in terms of how we model things. Kind of, because it is often most natural to start in the logical and work top-down-bottom-up from ther...

I'll take a look at SysML - perhaps it has some higher level concepts (higher than Class and Relationship) that we can map some semantics to. The issue here, though, again is the variance in the use of the tools. For example, an in ERD, do we map the elements in the model to Data Objects, Data Repr...

I like the sound of what you're suggesting about the tutorials. We had some internal documentation that morphed into some of the tutorials but we probably elaborated during that morphing. I think what you're suggesting might be more like a couple of paragraphs that describe modelling concepts rathe...

OK onto my problem at hand. No the issue is not that I have 75 different Application Providers. The challenge is that because we are not modeling applications per se, but rather a more abstract model of Application Offerings in a portfolio that we sell - IE not for internal IT management but for cre...

on the Visio/UML import question I don't think you can really make the arguement that UML is dramatically more rigorous. UML has a number of ambiguities within it, and every XMI I've worked with has required manual "fixups" when moving between tools of different vendors. So you could provi...

I'm going to split this up into three replies since otherwise it is getting too cumbersome. On the Quick-And-Dirty approach, the problem with 'black-boxing' is that you are still committing to a particular mapping which may turn out to not be accurate. and undoing an existing mapping to a 'black box...

Thanks Jonathan. I appreciate the explanation. I kinda had reached that understanding - and perhaps the mistake I made in my approach was that what I needed was a quick way to collect technology to application mappings. and precisely because I lacked the architectural topological info I wanted to re...

To define a deployment... 1. Choose the Application Provider you wish to define a deployment for. 2. In the form for the Application Provider, find the Physical Deployment field and choose Add New 3. You should now have a new form to create a deployment 4. Give the deployment a local name e.g. MyAp...

Sounds like you've dragged The out-of-the-box Technology Product View provides the back trace that I believe you are after, showing all the Applications that depend on this Technology Product. OK its not quite working but I suspect that I'm missing some linkages. See below To provide this, the View...

Firstly, from what we can see from your original post, your approach makes sense. When looking to map Technology Instances back to Technology Providers (i.e. Technology Products or Technology Product Builds), "Instance of Technology Provider" is indeed the correct field to populate. With ...

More investigation leads me to be even more confused.

Somehow, Technolog Product has moved from where it belongs in the EA Class hiearch to where it does not belong.

Is there some way that I can manually intervene to fix this??!!!???

OK I'm confused In looking at the Metamodel documentation, it indicates that Technology Product and Technology Product Build are both Subclasses of Technology_Provider. Yet when I open up my hierarchy, Technology_Product is under Technlogy_Product_Architecture type. Why this matters is that we are t...

Fair enough. Surely it's possible to allow the SYSTEM user to write to the Tomcat folder? However, it's worth exploring what happens if you explicitly run it as Admin to see if that solves the problem. Then it's a matter of allow the SYSTEM user to write to that folder. Jonathan I believe System an...

Hi schulmkg, Whilst it is true that the SVG plugin developed by Adobe for Internet Explorer is no longer being actively developed, it is a stable product and does (to the best of my knowledge) work fine in IE6, IE7 and IE8 for using Essential Viewer. In the new IE9, SVG support is baked directly in...

he "Deployed OS Summary" says that it "Requires Firefox, or IE with an SVG plug-in"

the gotcha is that the SVG Plug-in for IE has not been supported since 2009 and thus does not run reliably with the latest two versions of IE

Thanks for the update. Great to hear that you have made some progress for Friday! All we need is that Tomcat can write to its own webapps folder. And this is pretty standard for Tomcat to do anything, e.g. deploy new web apps etc. I know we've discussed running things as Admin and so on for the ins...

Thanks Jonathan - I had missed the manual export to ReportXML.XML file. I got that to work OTOH I'm having serious problems getting the export functions to work. I am suspicious that the problem is the inability to enable R/W permissions for the WebDav directory and ReportXML.XML under Windows Serve...

note, I'm convinced the issue is going to be a fairly simple one once we sort it out, but I've been very much heads down trying to enter some 180 offerings into the database while trying to get the servers to behave.

Thanks for the details. The Essential Architecture Reporting Tab would report any problems with the username and password, so I don't think that's the problem at this stage. If you go to you web browser what do you get if you use this URL: http://localhost:8080/essential_viewer Something I should h...

Sorry to make you repeat yourself. Can you paste the messages that the Essential Reporting Tab is reporting into a post here, so that we can see it? Also, check the catalina.out log file in <TOMCAT>/logs and if you could paste anything that it might have in terms of warnings or errors here that wou...

Thanks - I just wanted to make certain we'd not missed something. Neil's suggestion above is excellent, by the way. In your Documents folder, create a folder called "Viewer" and when the installer asks you where to deploy the Essential Viewer component, point it to this Documents/Viewer f...

Thanks for the feedback. Good to hear that the widgets are being deployed successfully. This suggests that the installer is managing to get rights to write to locations in the Program Files hierarchy (I know you have Protege in there and am assuming that Tomcat is also under Program Files somewhere...

nd the only Catalina logs that have any new info inthem are the manager log, which simply shows the shutdown and restart of the Viewer app.

So as far as I can tell, even with R/O turned off and running from the admin account, the viewer.war file does not get properly installed

Thanks for the feedback. Good to hear that the widgets are being deployed successfully. This suggests that the installer is managing to get rights to write to locations in the Program Files hierarchy (I know you have Protege in there and am assuming that Tomcat is also under Program Files somewhere...

Thanks for the feedback. Good to hear that the widgets are being deployed successfully. This suggests that the installer is managing to get rights to write to locations in the Program Files hierarchy (I know you have Protege in there and am assuming that Tomcat is also under Program Files somewhere...

Just to let you know that I've uploaded a tweaked installer that runs in privileged mode on all Windows OS. You can download it from the Download page via the green download button. Do let me know whether or not this resolves the install issues. A successful install: - puts essential_viewer.war in ...

If you can browse to the Essential Viewer homepage http://<HOSTNAME>:8080/essential_viewer then you have installed the Essential Viewer component successfully and the problem with publishing your repository lies elsewhere. The Report Service to which the repository is published is part of the Essen...

Thanks very much for posting back about this - it's really important to hear about the 64-bit Windows and the how the C:\Program Files x860\ folder. We will put some notes in the install guides about this. In terms of the Essential Viewer install, it may well be impacted in the same way but we foun...

Thanks very much for posting back about this - it's really important to hear about the 64-bit Windows and the how the C:\Program Files x860\ folder. We will put some notes in the install guides about this. In terms of the Essential Viewer install, it may well be impacted in the same way but we foun...

As I mentioned I'm running Windows Server 2008. I had a problem with the Protoge Server startup where Protoge was assuming that it was being installed in "\Program Files" directory instead of the "\Program Files (x86)" directory that 32 bit apps get installed on in the x64 Window...

Note, the environment I am running in is Windows Server 2008 SP 1

Hi Jason. The Essential Viewer web application supports both these capabilities - the publishing from Protege and delivery of the Views. I think the first thing to check is that the Essential Viewer web application has been deployed successfully to Tomcat. There have been some reports that it is no...

So there was a completely different problem than expected. On Windows Protege expects the server to be installed in "c:\program files\protege_3.4.xxx" on Windows Client software this fixes up correctly everywhere in 32bit mode. But the recent versions of Windows Server OS are all 64bit ver...

I've been following the Multi-User install guide and while I can find the and install the Server Meta Model project, when I open it in Protoge (either 3.4.4. or 3.4.7) There is no "projects" entry in the Managed Objects heading. These are freshly downloaded JAR files from the Essentials si...

I'm trying to follow the Multi-User setup instructions. I'm at the point where I'm supposed to configure the Protege Server Project. I've copied over the Metamodel.pprj files but when I go to open the, to connect the Essentials projct to the Protege project there is NO PROJECT TYPE under the Managed...