To configure Network Integrity Specifications:
In the Studio Projects view, double-click a specification.
The Specification editor appears.
(Optional) In the Display Name field, enter a display name for any localizable languages.
Design Studio supports multiple languages for this field. You can specify a name for each language available in the list beside the Display Name field.
If your preferences are set up to work in one language only, the list displays only the [default] option. See "Defining Language Preferences" for more information.
Do one of the following:
Add characteristics to the specification.
See "Adding Characteristics to Network Integrity Specifications" for more information.
Add configuration items.
See "Adding Configuration Items" for more information. Configuration items can be added to configuration specification types only.
See "About Configurations" for more information about configuration specification types.
Define the layout for the specification.
See "Defining Network Integrity Specification Layouts" for more information.
Define UI settings for the specification characteristics.
See "Defining Network Integrity Specification Layouts" for more information.
(Optional) To add the specification to an action in another cartridge project, do the following:
Ensure the cartridge project containing the action is dependent on the cartridge project containing the specifications.
See "Managing Project Dependencies" for more information.
Add the new specification to a model collection in the other cartridge project.
See "Adding Specifications to Network Integrity Model Collections" for more information.
Add the model collection to the action.
See "Adding Model Collections to Network Integrity Actions" for more information.
About Network Integrity Specifications
Creating Network Integrity Specifications
Network Integrity Specification Editor
Specifications can be augmented with characteristics to collect information about entities. Some specifications come with default characteristics.
You can add characteristics to Network Integrity specifications in the following ways:
Creating Characteristics from the Network Integrity Specification Editor
Adding Existing Characteristics to Network Integrity Specifications
To create characteristics from the Specification editor:
On the Specification editor Characteristics tab for a Network Integrity specification, right-click the data tree area and select Add Characteristic.
The Create and Add Characteristic dialog box appears.
Do the following:
From the Primitive Type list, select the data type for the characteristic.
Depending on the data type you select, some fields may not appear.
In the Name field, enter the name for the characteristic.
In the Display Name field, enter the display name for the characteristic.
The display name is the name of the input field in the Network Integrity UI.
In the Multiplicity field, specify whether the characteristic is required.
Do not select Range.
In the Length area, use the Maximum and Minimum fields to specify the length for string data types. Select the Unbounded check box to not set an explicit maximum value.
(Optional) In the Default field, enter a default value.
Click Finish.
Design Studio creates the data element in the data schema as a characteristic and adds the new characteristic to the Specification editor Characteristics tab.
Configure the characteristic.
See "Creating Characteristics" in the Modeling Inventory Help for more information.
To add existing characteristics to a specification:
On the Specification editor Characteristics tab for a Network Integrity specification, right-click the data tree area and click Select Characteristic.
The Select Characteristic dialog box appears. The dialog box lists characteristics from the current cartridge project and from dependent cartridge projects. See "Managing Project Dependencies" for more information.
Select one or more characteristics.
You can filter the list by element name by typing in the Element field and clicking the Filter icon, or by entity name by typing in the Entity Name field and clicking the Filter icon.
Click OK.
Design Studio adds the characteristics to the Specification editor Characteristics tab.
You define layouts for specifications to specify how and where characteristics appear as fields in the Network Integrity UI scan results.
To define specification layouts:
On the Specification editor Layouts tab, select a characteristic.
Note:
Design Studio for Network Integrity does not support suppressing characteristics from the run-time UI. All characteristics appear in the run-time UI.Organize the order of the characteristics:
From the Selected list, select a characteristic.
Click the Up Arrow or Down Arrow icons.
(Optional) To add rows, right-click a characteristic and select Insert New Row.
Characteristics appear in the order indicated from left to right in the Network Integrity UI. By inserting a row, the proceeding characteristics restart on the left of the UI on a new row.
Save the specification.
Note:
Clicking the Reset button resets the order of the characteristics in the Panels / Elements area and remove any added rows.You define the UI settings for each characteristic on a specification to determine how it appears in the Network Integrity UI scan results. Repeat the procedure for all characteristics appearing in the UI.
To define UI settings for a characteristic:
On the Specification editor Layouts tab, from the Selected list, select a characteristic.
The configurable options for the characteristic appear in the UI Settings area.
Configure the following UI settings:
In the Display Name field, enter the field name as you want it to appear in the Network Integrity UI.
In the ToolTip field, enter a tooltip value for the field, to appear when a user mouses over the field in the Network Integrity UI.
All other fields inherit their values from the data schema.
Save the specification.