Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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Dependency Discovery Overview
Dependency mapping provides a flexible method of discovering relationships between deployable components or running software. This method allows the use of user-defined dependency mapping rules (using simple programming syntax), which the Universal Discovery process uses to automatically discover dependencies.
A service can be either a business or IT service. A business service is a service that a business provides to another business (B2B) or that one organization provides to another within a business (such as payment processing). An IT service is a business service that an IT organization provides to support business services or IT's own operations.
A deployable component is a software component that is deployed within running software, such as an application server or web server. Examples of deployable components are JEE EAR components or a schema within an Oracle database. For the purpose of dependency discovery, running software is considered to be a deployable component.
A provider deployable component delivers a service, and declares how other deployable components can consume that service. A consumer deployable component "consumes" a service provided by a provider deployable component. The dependency between these deployable components is a consumer-provider dependency.
Note The Dependency Signature File included in CP16 (or an earlier version) is obsolete and has been replaced by Configuration Signature in CP 17.
For more information, see the following
