Tivoli Enterprise Portal

Tivoli Enterprise Portal (also called the portal or the portal client) is the distributed user interface for products using Tivoli Management Services. The Tivoli Enterprise Portal is a thin Java™ client application. It has its own server, the Tivoli® Enterprise Portal Server, that communicates with the hub monitoring server to send requests to and retrieve data from monitoring agents on managed systems. Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server (the portal server) builds and formats the portal workspaces that display real-time and historical data collected by the monitoring agents. The portal server can run on Windows, AIX®, or Linux® systems.

You can access the portal client in any of the following ways:

• Browser client (Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox on Windows, Linux, or AIX) connected to a web server embedded in the portal server
• Desktop client
• Java-based desktop client that is updated at every startup. IBM Tivoli Monitoring supports IBM Java 8 and Oracle Java 8.
  Note: You can use open-source Java Web Start replacements, such as OpenWebStart or Open Web Launch (Windows only), to run your Tivoli Enterprise Portal client. For more information, see the following topics.

For setup information about the portal server and client, see the IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Installation and Setup Guide.

For information about using the client, see IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Tivoli Enterprise Portal User's Guide