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About TopographyDiagrams

A TopographyDiagram is the top-level object in the Topography workbench. The TopographyDiagram is an optional object that serves principally as a graphical tool that you use to group and organize a subset of the following Topography objects on a diagram:

HostGroup
Host
Axway Server
CommNetwork (not applicable to the Axway AccountingIntegrator product)

Via the TopographyDiagram, you can:

view the relationship between the objects
add CommNetworks to Host objects (not applicable to the AxwayAccountingIntegrator product)

For example, you can see which Axway Servers are located on a given Host machine, define which communication network(s) a Host uses, and group a set of Hosts in a HostGroup object.

The way you define your TopographyDiagram, or in other words, the way you add objects to the Diagram, depends on your starting point. The Diagram tab provides three alternative starting points for defining a TopographyDiagram:

You have defined no metadata objects: In this case, define new objects on the Diagram in a top-down approach.
You have defined all required HostGroups, Hosts, Axway Servers and CommNetworks: In this case, drag-and-drop existing objects onto the Diagram in a bottom-up approach.
You have defined some, but not all, of the required objects: In this case, mix the definition by using some existing, previously defined objects and creating some new objects directly on the Diagram.