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
  - Navigator
    The Navigator Physical view shows the physical hierarchy of the network, with enterprise at the top, followed by the operating platform, and so on. Have a look at the levels of the Navigator.
  - Workspaces
  - Views
    Marvel Enterprise Portal offers many different views that you can add to your workspaces. The view title bar has buttons for creating another view by splitting the view horizontally or vertically, for maximizing the view, and for deleting the view.
  - Situations
  - Properties
    Use Properties editor to edit the appearance and content of the views chosen for a workspace.
  - Conclusion
- Troubleshooting
  This list provides some general debugging information.

Workspaces

Every item in the Navigator has a default workspace that opens when you select it. Multiple workspaces can also be accessed from a single navigator item. After you log into the Marvel Enterprise Portal Server, the Marvel Enterprise Portal window opens. The top item in the Navigator,

Enterprise, is selected and its workspace is displayed.

Select another Navigator item by clicking the icon for the operating platform or the name.

The workspace for the operating platform you selected replaces the one that was previously displayed. The workspace displayed when you click a Navigator item is the default workspace for that item. Your IBM Marvel Monitoring product might come with multiple workspaces for some items, and you can create additional workspaces of your own.

Click Workspace gallery to see thumbnail graphics of all the workspaces that you can open for this Navigator item.

If this is a new installation, you will see the splash screen instead of a thumbnail version of the workspace in the gallery until you or another user who is logged on to the same Marvel Enterprise Portal Server opens the workspace for the first time. A check mark by a workspace name indicates that it is the default workspace for this Navigator item. You can reorder the workspaces in your copy of the gallery by clicking a thumbnail graphic and dragging it on top of the workspace to swap positions with.

Together, the Navigator and workspaces show the facets of your Marvel managed enterprise from the highest level to the most detailed.