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How to Change the Topology Viewer Configuration

CA Chorus for Storage Management lets you view storage object relationships using the Topology Viewer, which provides a graphical view of system resources and their relationships.

A graphical view is useful when you want to see the relationships of storage resources and their dependencies in your storage environment. As you drill down in the Topology Viewer, your storage environment is displayed in a hierarchal, graphic format.

You can change the Topology Viewer default configuration to better display your storage resource environment. For example, the number of DASD volumes that are installed in most environments is large so the Topology Viewer cannot realistically provide a visual representation of each of these volumes on a single mapping. You can change the Topology Viewer configuration to subdivide online DASD volumes. You can also customize online DASD maps where DASD is logically grouped according to various characteristics of the volumes such as by application, line-of-business, and so on.

To change the Topology Viewer configuration, perform the following steps:

1. Copy the member TOPOLVOL from the storage engine CCTUSAMP library to your storage engine parmlib library.
2. Edit the TOPOLVOL member in your parmlib library according to the instructions in the member.
3. Save your changes.
4. Reboot the JBoss server by doing the following:
   1. Stop the JBoss server by entering the following console command:

      P CHORJBOS
      

      A message indicating that the JBoss server started task has ended is logged.

   2. Start the JBoss server:

      S CHORJBOS
      

      A message indicating that startup is complete is logged.

   The Topology Viewer displays storage object relationships according to your configuration.