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
    - Procedure
  - 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.

Procedure

To open the Situation editor, the user ID must have permission to View Situations.

To open a situation,

Right-click a system name in the Navigator and click Situations.
The Situation editor opens with a list of situations on the left. This is where you can view and edit situations or create new ones.
Click a situation name in the tree to see the Situation editor tabs.
- Formula to view, add, and change the conditions being tested.
- Distribution to view and specify the systems on which to run the situation.
- Expert Advice to write comments or instructions to be read in the event results workspace.
- Action to send a command to the managed system.
- Until to close the event after a period of time or when another situation is true.
Click Cancel to close the Situation editor.