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@solventarchitect solventarchitect released this 04 Oct 10:41
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Blueprint Modeler 1.4.0 groups the starter examples by category and adds eight new ones, covering security architecture, ServiceNow as a platform, server virtualization and virtual desktops, with 12 new CMDB classes to draw them. As always, models never leave your browser and saved files keep working unchanged.

What's new

Examples by category (M35). The toolbar's Examples list is now a menu of categories: Application architecture, Security architecture, ServiceNow platform, Reference architecture, and Frameworks and metamodel. Each example shows a short summary, and Blank model comes first. It works from the keyboard, and Escape closes it. The empty canvas groups the examples the same way. The About page now explains the blast radius.

Eight new examples (M36). All of them are fictional:

  • Security architecture: Internet edge and DMZ, Directory and sign-in services, Remote access VPN.
  • ServiceNow platform: ServiceNow service management, ServiceNow instances and MID Servers, ServiceNow integrations. These model ServiceNow as a platform in its own CMDB.
  • Reference architecture: Server virtualization, and Virtual desktops (VDI), alongside Storefront on Kubernetes for containerization.

Each one tells a blast-radius story. Show the blast radius of the edge certificate, a MID Server host or an ESX Server to see what it reaches.

12 CMDB classes (M36). Turn on View › Extended classes to get them in the palette:

  • Server virtualization: VMware vCenter Instance, Datacenter, Cluster and Datastore, ESX Server, VMware Virtual Machine Instance.
  • Security: Firewall Device, Firewall Cluster, Load Balancer, Virtual Private Network, Unique Certificate, Active Directory Domain Controller.

Each class cites ServiceNow's public product documentation, and the class guide links to every source. The virtualization relationships use the types and directions ServiceNow documents. ServiceNow's documentation does not name types for the security relationships, so those use standard CMDB types and are marked conventional. Blast-radius rules and ArchiMate® readings cover all the new classes.

Compatibility

No change to the model file format: files exported from 1.0.0 through 1.3.0 open as before. The seven existing examples are unchanged.

ArchiMate® is a registered trademark of The Open Group. Blueprint Modeler is not affiliated with or endorsed by ServiceNow.

Full milestone details: SPEC.md · Try it: model.mikereams.com

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