Describing Equipment Resources
Creating a physical asset
To describe that an architecture such as a software support center relies on equipment resources such as workstations hosting applications, you will create components of Physical Asset type and associate the required workstations with these.
To create a physical asset:
1. In the diagram objects toolbar, click Physical Asset 
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.2. Click in the diagram.
A creation dialog box asks you to select a deployed resource.
3. Select the artifact you wish to assign to the physical asset (in this case operator stations) and click OK.
You can create a physical asset without connecting an artifact. If the desired artifact does not exist in the repository, or is as yet unidentified, you can postpone assignment of the resource to the physical asset.
You can also create a physical asset by selecting an artifact in the MEGA navigation window, and dragging it into the diagram using the mouse.Channels and communication ports
In a resource architecture, communication channels support transfer of information from one physical asset to another. For more details on creation of these channels and the associated communication protocols, see Communication channels.
Communication ports enable connection of resource architecture physical assets with external equipment elements. For more details on how to connect communication ports between different components, see Connecting Communication Element Points.