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.

Marvel Management Services Architecture

The Marvel Enterprise Portal is based on a client-server-agent architecture. It comprises of server hosts, delivers, and manages most of the resources and services to be consumed by the client. The agent collects the monitored data and passes it to the Marvel Enterprise Monitoring Server. A high-level representation of client-server-agent architecture is shown in the following figure.

Figure 1. Client server agent architecture

More details on the architecture are provided in the following sections.