Create New Entity Schema: Select or Create New Platform

The Select or Create New Platform panel of the Create New Entity Schema wizard lets you create a new platform. You can also extend an existing platform that you have already created for creating a new entity.

You must create a platform for creating an entity based on which an asset type is created. For example, if you have an application, DB2 and you want to collect data for all the DB2 servers, then you can define a platform called DB2. The platform, entity, and fields information are required for defining the entity schema.

See About the entity schema .

The fields of the Select or Create New Platform panel and their descriptions are as follows:

Create new platform

Select this option to create a new platform.

The new entity that is to be created belongs to this platform.

The fields of this option are as follows:

  • Name

    Enter the name of the new platform. This platform is used to create the header information in the CSV file.

    See Creating a CSV file .

  • Display name

    Enter the display name of the platform. The display name of the platform appears in the evaluation report that is generated for the collected data of the asset.

  • Description

    Enter the description for the new platform.

Use existing platform

Select this option to extend an existing platform that you have earlier created.

Select the platform from the drop-down box.

More Information

Creating a new entity schema