You can optionally visualize the Application Reference Model (ARM). Visualizing all or part of it can help you in these ways:
▪You can gain a full understanding of the ARM, as you categorize your assets against it.
▪The Consolidated Reference Models (CRM) are often utilized as reference models by non-US-government organizations and commercial companies. These organizations and companies make use of the reference models but tailor them – adding or removing elements from it to match their organization. Visualizing the reference models can help with this effort.
To visualize the ARM
In general, to visualize the ARM, you do the following:
1 Create a FEAF2 ARM type diagram – provide a name to the diagram.
2 From the Explorer tree, drag-and-drop all FEAF2 ARM Domain onto the diagram.
3 From the Explorer tree, drag-and-drop all FEAF2 ARM Area onto the diagram.
4 From the Explorer tree, drag-and-drop all FEAF2 ARM Category onto the diagram.
To build a diagram
Follow these specific steps to build a diagram that lays out nicely with minimal effort:
1 Create a FEAF2 ARM type diagram – provide a name to the diagram.
2 From the Explorer tree, drag-and-drop all FEAF2 ARM Domain onto the diagram.
3 Arrange the symbols so they are horizontal to each other.
4 Select the FEAF2 ARM Domains on the diagram, right-mouse click and choose Arrange Children Vertically.
5 From the Explorer tree, drag-and-drop all FEAF2 ARM Area onto the diagram.
6 Zoom out to see all symbols.
7 Select the top symbol of each hierarchy tree and move it to the right to open up the symbols on the diagram.
8 Lasso all the FEAF2 ARM Area symbols – then right-mouse click and select Arrange Children As a Block.
9 From the Explorer tree, drag-and-drop all FEAF2 ARM Category onto the diagram.
10 Select View > Zoom > Used Area to see all symbols.
11 Again select only the top symbol in each tree and move it to the right to move the whole tree.
