Introduction
- Getting Started
- New in this Release
- Marvel Management Services Architecture
- Marvel Enterprise Portal Window
  Use this topic to familiarize yourself with the elements of the Marvel Enterprise Portal window.
- Browser Client Differences
  The Marvel Enterprise Portal can be started as a desktop application or through your browser by entering the URL for the Marvel Enterprise Portal Server. There are a few differences in operation between the two clients..
- Monitoring Agents
- Features
  The Marvel Enterprise Portal gives you a single point of control for managing the resources your applications rely on, including a range of operating systems, servers, databases, platforms, and web components. For example, a typical IT network might have a web server on Windows, an application server and database on UNIX, and a transaction processor on CICS® on the mainframe. The Marvel Enterprise Portal brings all these views together in a single window so that you can see when any aspect of your network is not working as expected. Your IBM Marvel Monitoring products use the portal interface with these major features, and you can find demos for many of them on developer works in the Media Gallery.
- Predefined Workspaces, Situations, and More
  Every agent is designed to monitor specific attributes of an operating system or other type of software. With these attributes, come definitions for use with the Marvel Enterprise Portal functions.
- Marvel Enterprise Portal Tour
- Troubleshooting
  This list provides some general debugging information.

Agent

Marvel Enterprise Monitoring Agents are installed on the systems whose applications or resources you want to monitor. The monitoring agent collects the monitored data, and passes it to the Marvel Enterprise Monitoring Server to which it is connected. The client gathers the current values of the monitored properties, or attributes, and displays them in views. It can also test the values against a threshold and display an event indicator when that threshold is exceeded.