CMS - Applications view

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CMS - Applications view

CMS - Assessment Models view

CMS - Log view

CMS - Migration view

CMS - Pending Deliveries view

CMS - Search view

CMS - Services view

CMS - Technologies view

CMS - Validation view

CMS - Verification view

Applications view

Applications view

Assessment Models view

Log view

Migration view

Pending Deliveries view

Search view

Services view

Technologies view

Validation view

Verification view

Shortcut menu

Assessment Models shortcut menus

Migration view shortcut menus

Searching

Results

Error validation

Error verification

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This section provides a detailed description of the Applications view. This view essentially provides a means for you to manage your Applications.

Notes

The Application view will be empty following a new installation

The following shortcut menu items are available in the view, depending on the item you right click:

Application

Use this option to modify the properties of your Application. The Application editor will be displayed.

Stop Managing Application

Please see Stop Managing an Application for more information.

Backup Application

Please see Backup an Application for more information.

Rename Application

Use this option to rename your Application. A dialog box will be displayed enabling you to input the new name for your Application. Renaming an Application will also rename it in the Source Code Delivery Folder and therefore in the CAST AIC Portal.

CMS - Assessment Models view

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Assessment Models view

This section provides a detailed description of the Assessment Models view. This view essentially provides a means for you to manage your Assessment Models - i.e. the models that govern the Quality Rules/Distributions/Measures that are used in the Snapshot generation process.

Notes

This view will display Assessment Models as follows (see the Dashboard Service editor for more information):

the default Assessment Model supplied by CAST during the installation - CAST Assessment Model

those that have been manually created using the button - Default Assessment Model (CAST AIP + Extensions)-N

Assessment Models imported from the Dashboard Service using the Import Assessment Models option located in the Dashboard Service editor

Assessment Models shortcut menus

The following shortcut menu items are available in the view:

CMS - Log view

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Log view

The Log view captures all the warnings and errors logged by the CAST Management Studio and is displayed by default. It contains a log of all application (i.e. CAST Management Studio) related events. The log will also show entries from previous sessions.

If you close it, you can re-display it by:

Clicking Window > Show View menu and then choosing the Log view in the displayed dialog box:

CMS - Migration view

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Migration view

The Migration view is only used when you are migrating/upgrading from a previous CAST release to the current release. After proceeding with the CAST Update Tool to update your CAST databases, any items that cannot be automatically attached to an Application will be displayed in the Migration view. You should check this view and move the items to their correct locations.

Migration view shortcut menus

The following shortcut menu items are available in the view:

CMS - Pending Deliveries view

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Pending Deliveries view

This section provides a detailed description of the Pending Deliveries view. This view provides a means for you to manage versions of source code deliveries for specific Applications that have been created with the CAST Delivery Manager tool. It enables you to view the current state of the source code deliveries.

Notes

The Pending Deliveries view will not contain any Pending Deliveries immediately following a new installation.

CMS - Search view

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Search view

The Search view displays results of searches carried out in the CAST Management Studio:

Searching

You can carry out a search by:

clicking the button in a View

right clicking white space in a View and selecting the Search option

Both options will display a dialog box enabling you to choose where the search will be carried out:

Results

Search results are displayed in the Search view - click a result to open the editor/view that contains the matched search item.

CMS - Services view

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Services view

This section provides a detailed description of the Services view. This view essentially provides a means for you to configure your organization’s IT environment, i.e. define database servers on which you have installed a CAST Analysis/Dashboard Service. You can define as many as you require - i.e. you can manage multi-homed services from one place

Notes

By default this view will display database servers and associated services automatically using the information defined during the installation process using CAST Server Manager - see the CAST Installation Guide for more information. However, you can add further database servers using the menus described below.

CMS - Technologies view

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Technologies view

This section provides a detailed description of the Technologies view. This view essentially provides a means for you to configure the default analysis options for all technologies supported by the CAST Management Studio. The options defined in each technology will be used to populate the same fields:

in the Analysis tab in the Application editor (for configuring Technology specific options at Application level)

in an Analysis Unit (for configuring Technology specific options at Analysis Unit level)

Notes

CMS - Validation view

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Validation view

This section provides a detailed description of the Validation view. The Validation view provides a list of errors that currently exist in any of the components you have defined.

CAST recommends that the errors displayed in this view are corrected prior to running an analysis or generating a Snapshot.

Error validation

The errors that are flagged in the Validation view are errors that will prevent the CAST Management Studio from carrying out tasks correctly.

CMS - Verification view

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Verification view

This section provides a detailed description of the Verification view. The Verification view provides the results of the Verify action (see Toolbar for more information).

CAST recommends that the errors displayed in this view are corrected prior to running an analysis or generating a Snapshot.

Error verification

The errors that are flagged in the Verification view are errors that will prevent the CAST Management Studio from carrying out tasks correctly. Take for example the following errors shown in this Validation view: