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Expanding the Navigator in Increments
More indicators in the Navigator keep the tree compact. Click the indicator to open that branch of the tree. You can specify how many items to expand at one time.
Examples
The examples here show Navigator being expanded in a large managed enterprise.

Using the Navigator
- Navigator Overview
- Types of Navigator Views
- Workspaces
- Navigator Tools
  Use the tools in the Navigator view toolbar to update the display when managed systems have come online or gone offline, to open another Navigator view, to edit custom Navigator views, and to collapse the view.
- Situation Event Indicators
- More... Indicators
- Expanding the Navigator in Increments
  More indicators in the Navigator keep the tree compact. Click the indicator to open that branch of the tree. You can specify how many items to expand at one time.
  - Examples
    The examples here show Navigator being expanded in a large managed enterprise.
  - Logical and Custom Navigator Views
- Collapsing and Expanding the Navigator
- Finding Navigator Items
  The Navigator shows all the managed systems that run on an operating system and this list can get very long. Use the Find tool to locate Navigator items based on properties such as IP address or associated situations.
- Opening a Navigator View
  The initial Marvel Enterprise Portal workplace has a Navigator Physical view and a Logical view and any other views that were predefined for your product. You can switch between Navigator views to see the items and workspaces of another Navigator.
- Refreshing the Navigator
- Responding to an Application Support Event
- Removing an Event Item
- Removing an Offline Managed System Navigator Item
  Use the Managed System Status workspace to clear offline managed systems from the Navigator view.

Examples

The examples here show Navigator being expanded in a large managed enterprise.

In large managed environments the expand feature helps you control the Navigator display and its performance. In this example, the expansion limit of 4 was chosen for the Windows Server child items:

Table 1. Example: Expansion limit of 4 for the Windows Server child items
Enterprise
	Windows Systems
		Computer1
			Windows Server
				Disk
				Enterprise Services
				Memory
				Network
				More...4:8

This example illustrates the result of selecting Expand Child Items at the platform level of the Navigator. The site is monitoring 500 Windows-based systems. The user can quickly see which systems have situation events and at what severity.

Table 2. Example: Expanding Child Items at the platform level of the Navigator
Enterprise
	Windows Systems
		Computer1
		Computer2
		Computer3
		Computer4
		Computer5
		Computer6
		Computer7
		Computer8
		Computer9
		Computer10
		Computer11
		Computer12
		Computer13
		Computer14
		Computer15
		.
		.
		.
		Computer500