Navigator overview

The Navigator provides a hierarchical view of your enterprise. At the highest level you can get a high level overview of the status of your monitored environment. From there you can navigate to specific monitored resources to check activity and investigate problems.

Types of Navigator views

Navigator Physical view
The default Navigator view is Physical and shows the hierarchy of your monitored enterprise. The Navigator Physical view is a discovered view: as new managed systems come online or when they become disconnected, the view is adjusted accordingly.
Enterprise Enterprise, or root, level contains all managed systems
     Platform Platform is the operating system
          System System, or node, is the name of the computer or z/OS image
              Agent Agent type. Multiple instance agents have child items; some are grouped into one folder
                  Attribute Attribute category being monitored
Here is an example of a system named JDOE, running on Windows, with the Windows OS agent.
Enterprise Enterprise
     Windows Systems Windows Systems
          JDOE JDOE
              Windows OS Windows OS
                  Disk Disk
                   Monitoring Services Monitoring Services
                  Memory Memory
You can collapse the tree by double-clicking the Enterprise Navigator item Enterprise item, and expand it by double-clicking again.
Custom Navigator views
Your Cloud Pak System Software Monitoring Portal configuration can also have custom-designed Navigator views. These views are selectable from the Navigator toolbar, navigable and show event indicators (described below) in the same way as the Navigator Physical view. Unlike the Navigator Physical view, custom Navigator views can be edited. You can, for example, design a Navigator view for Manufacturing and another for Marketing.
Your user ID can be assigned to all or a subset of the defined Navigator views, and your access in any of these views can be restricted to a certain branch. To see the list of available Navigator views, click the List box list box in the Navigator toolbar.
A shared small white cross over a Navigator item icon means one or more other Navigator items share the characteristics of that item. This happens when an item from one Navigator view has been copied to another Navigator view. All the managed systems, workspaces, link definitions, situations, and policies associated with the original (source) item are applied to the new item. And from then on, changes to one item (such as a new workspace is added) are applied to the other. Right-click a Navigator item and click Show Navigator ListShow Navigator List to see the other Navigator views it is contained in.
Navigator Logical view
Users initially have one custom Navigator view called Logical with a single Navigator item for Enterprise Enterprise. Click the List box list box and select the Navigator Logical view from the list.

Workspaces

The workspace is the working area of the application window. Selecting an item in the Navigator opens its default workspace. The workspace contains views of information for that item in the Navigator.

If the item has multiple workspaces created for it, you can click Workspace Gallery Workspace Gallery to see thumbnail images of them and select another workspace to open.

You can move around the Navigator without selecting workspaces by using the vertical scroll bars and clicking expand to expand a list or collapse to collapse it.

Use Go back and Go forward to return to previously viewed workspaces in the order they were initially visited. The data in those workspaces is not cached, so any chart or table views are refreshed with the most recent data samplings when you revisit them.