Task: Determine Topology
Determine the topology/hardware that will host the tools
Disciplines: Asset Governance
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      Main Description

      Determine who will administer the tools, especially the asset repository. There are several kinds of administrative skills required to support asset repositories. In general, someone needs to configure the environment for the repository services, whereas someone needs to configure the integrations with other repositories, and someone needs to configure the information model for the assets, such as asset types, classification schemas, and so forth.

      The selected topology impacts the configuration effort and the overall cost of ownership.

      A key part of this step is to determine the appropriate topology to meet the needs of the enterprise. In general a centralized asset repository database manages the asset and repository metadata. The asset use and manipulation can be distributed to remote sites while leaving asset repository servers at the central site.

      The asset repository should be architected to support many topology configurations.

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