The Application Landscape diagram is used to illustrate the Applications and Services architectures. The creation of user-defined scenarios executed against the models visually provides an insight into the application and services architecture that would be otherwise difficult to comprehend.
This diagram type is complemented with a series of tools to automatically build and query scenarios:
▪Scenarios can be built automatically using the Build landscape from template tool to run Application Landscape Reports. Here a symbol may be filled with related symbols based on the rules defined in the report.
▪Scenarios can then be questioned by Run analytics onto the diagram.
To work with an Application Landscape diagram it is necessary to specify the starting point criteria for the diagram by creating the diagram and then dragging and dropping existing permitted definitions onto the diagram, or alternatively by adding new permitted symbols types into the diagram. Any combination and number of these types are used as a starting point for traversing through their relationships to other System Architect objects for the purpose of performing analysis; the results of which are rendered visibly on the diagram.
Permitted symbol types
The permitted symbol types are listed below.
▪Component Category
▪Service Component
▪Service
▪Physical Application
▪Physical Location
▪Physical Server
The Physical Application, Physical Location, and Physical Server symbols are defined respectively by Application, Location, and Server definitions.