Workspace Characteristics
Every Navigator item has at least one predefined workspace that you can open. Every workspace characteristics such as editable properties and views.
- Views
- A view is a windowpane, or frame, in the workspace containing a chart or
table showing data from one or more monitoring agents. Other types of views
such as the topology view and graphic view can give a broader overview of
the network. Specialized view such as the browser view and terminal view are
also available. You can increase the number of views in a workspace by
splitting a view into two separate views.
The data for a table, chart, or relational table-based topology view is chosen by the query it uses. Collectively, they are called query-based views. The query specifies the attributes to include in the view. Although each view uses one query, you can add more views to the workspace, and each can use a different query. The queries can be for different monitoring agents, including those for the Marvel Enterprise Monitoring Server for showing information that is common to your monitored environment (such as all the managed systems and all the situation events). You can also include queries of JDBC or ODBC data sources by writing custom SQL queries.
- Properties
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Every workspace has a set of properties associated with it: general properties that apply to the entire workspace, and properties for each view in the workspace. Use the Properties editor to customize the workspace characteristics and to change the style and content of each view.
You can also keep the original workspace intact and create another workspace for the same item in the Navigator, customizing it for the types of views you want and the information reported in charts and tables.
Changes you make to a workspace are available only to your user ID. System administrators can work in Administration mode to create and edit workspaces that will be available to all users on the managed network.
- Links
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The link feature enables you to define a link from one workspace to another. Then you can quickly jump to a related or more detailed workspace to investigate system conditions.
The simplest type of a link originates from the Navigator item: When you right-click that Navigator item, the pop-up menu shows the defined links for the item. Select one to open the linked workspace.
A more specific link originates from a table or from a chart data point to another workspace. Information from one of the attributes in the selected row, bar, pie segment, or plot point is used to determine the content of the target workspace.
You can also define more complex links and use the predefined links that come with your Marvel Monitoring product.
- Navigator Level
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The monitoring agents available for reporting in a workspace are those assigned to that branch of the Navigator. If you are not sure which monitoring agents are included, do one of the following:
- Expand the branch of the Navigator
- Right-click the Navigator item and select Properties to see which managed systems are assigned.
- Open one of the workspaces at the enterprise, platform, or system level of the Navigator Physical view
This same principle applies to attribute groups. The lowest level of the Navigator Physical view, for example, is the attribute level. The views you can show for the workspaces at that level can draw only from the attribute groups represented by that level. If you were to build a workspace for the
Disk Navigator
item, for example, you could create a chart with data from
the Logical Disk attributes and another with data
from the Physical Disk attributes.