Opening a workspace

Use the Navigator to open the default workspace for the selected item, then the Workspace Gallery to see and select from a thumbnail display of available workspaces.

Before you begin

As well as a convenient way to open workspaces, you can also move the workspaces around the gallery to change their order. The changes you make are saved with the workspace definition for the Navigator item. If you are in workspace administration mode when you reorder the thumbnail graphics, the reorganization will be reflected in the workspace gallery of all Cloud Pak System Software Monitoring Portal clients connected to this Cloud Pak System Software Monitoring Portal Server.

About this task

Every item in the Navigator has a workspace associated with it, called the default workspace. Some items have multiple workspaces that you can open, although only one workspace can be open in the Cloud Pak System Software Monitoring Portal window at one time. Some workspaces are only accessible by linking to them from another workspace.

Procedure

  • To open the default workspace, click the item name or icon in the Navigator:
    • Physical view: Enterprise, Platform, System, Agent, or Attribute group.
    • Logical view or other custom Navigator view: Enterprise.
    The default workspace for that item is displayed, replacing the workspace of the previously selected item. If the workspace shows no data for a chart or table view, it means there is no data to display. This can occur with monitoring data that is not constantly generated, such as Archive Errors, which collects data only when archive errors occur.
  • To open another workspace associated with the Navigator item:
    1. Click Workspace gallery.
    2. Click the thumbnail graphic of the workspace to open.
      (To open the workspace in a new window instead of replacing the current workspace, use Ctrl + Shift + click the thumbnail graphic.)
    If this is a new installation, you will see the splash screen instead of a thumbnail version of the workspace in the gallery until you or another user who is logged on to the same Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server opens the workspace for the first time. A check mark by a workspace name indicates that it is the default workspace for this Navigator item. You can reorder the workspaces in your copy of the gallery by clicking a thumbnail graphic and dragging it on top of the workspace to swap positions with.