Situations
In addition to providing a map of your enterprise, the Navigator can alert you of
changing conditions in the systems you are monitoring. When a condition changes, the
associated item is marked with an icon:
- Fatal
- Critical
- Minor
- Warning
- Harmless
- Informational
- Unknown
The Navigator places one of these icons, called alert indicator or event indicator, at every level of the hierarchy so you can see an alert even if a Navigator branch is closed.
If you see any of these icons in the Navigator now, move the mouse pointer over an event indicator to open a flyover listing of the situations that caused the events at that level of the Navigator and below.
Marvel Enterprise Portal runs tests called situations on systems where monitoring agents are installed. When the conditions of a situation have been met, an event occurs, and an event indicator is displayed over the applicable items in the Navigator.