Method details (attribute table)

The following table contains typical IT-specific attributes that are used within IT architecture management. Further information is available on the 'Administration' tab (Conventions > Method), in the Method help, and in the ARIS Method Manual.

Object type

Attribute/Attribute type group

Attribute values

Programming language

Product/Service

Information carrier

Application system type

Operating system type

Cluster/Data model

DBMS type

Function

Technical term

Hardware component type

Hardware component class

Protocol

Lifecycle attributes

  • Evaluation (start)

  • Evaluation (end)

  • Request (start)

  • Request (end)

  • Phase-in phase (start)

  • Phase-in phase (end)

  • Standard (start)

  • Standard (end)

  • Phase-out phase (start)

  • Phase-out phase (end)

Guarantee/Warranty

Application system

Lifecycle attributes

  • Planning phase (start)

  • Planning phase (end)

  • Procurement phase (start)

  • Procurement phase (end)

  • Development phase (start)

  • Development phase (end)

  • Test phase (start)

  • Test phase (end)

  • Operation phase (start)

  • Operation phase (end)

  • Shut-down (start)

  • Shut-down (end)

Application system

System status

In procurement

In development

In testing

In operation

In shut-down

Out of operation

In planning

Application system type

Operating system type

Cluster/Data model

DBMS type

Technical term

Function

Hardware component class

Hardware component type

Information carrier

Product/Service

Programming language

Protocol

Standardization status

Non-standard

Standard

In evaluation

Rejected

To be phased in

Phased out

Requested for standard

To be phased out

Standard - limited use

Application system type

Manufacturer

Application system type

Data center costs

Application system type

Criticality

Very low

Low

Normal

High

Very high

Application system type

Number of external users

Number of internal users

0

More than 10000

Up to 10000

Up to 5000

Up to 2500

Up to 1000

Up to 500

Up to 100

Application system type

Availability

99.9 percent

99.6 percent

97.5 percent

92.5 percent

83 percent

Application system type

Individual development

Yes

No

Application system type

Maximum downtime

3 days to 1 week

24 hours to 3 days

4 hours to 24 hours

1 hour to 4 hours

Less than 1 hour

Application system type

System type

System

Component

Service

Hardware component

Operating state

Semi-productive

Test

Productive

Location

Location details

Data center
Room

Protocol

Architecture element

Cluster/Data model

Technical term

Function

Hardware component class

Information carrier

Product/Service

Application system class

Architecture element (*)

Application system

Application system type

Port

Network node

Host name

IP address

Organizational unit

Person

LDAP user ID

Distinguished name

(*) Language-independent identification characteristic for classification of object types. For example, using the databases identification characteristic for an application system class indicates that the assigned application system types are databases.