Use this topic to familiarize yourself with the elements of the Tivoli® Enterprise Portal window.
The Tivoli Enterprise Portal window displays information about monitored resources in your enterprise. On the left is the Navigator, which shows the arrangement of your monitored network and allows you to access information collected by different agents on your monitored systems. On the right is a workspace. The workspace can be divided into as many smaller frames, or panes, as you can reasonably fit inside the window. When you select an item in the Navigator, a new workspace opens with a set of views for that item.
- Title bar
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In browser mode (as shown), the title bar shows the name of the workspace.
In desktop mode, the title bar shows the name of the workspace, the name and port number of the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server, and the user name. For example, NT Cache Details - mars:14000 - JONDO tells us that the NT Cache Details workspace is open and the user JONDO is connected to the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server named mars through port number 14000.
- Banner
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The banner is displayed when you run Tivoli Enterprise Portal in browser mode. You can replace it with your own .GIF graphic, such as your company logo. For more information, see the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's Guide.
- Menu bar
- Tivoli Enterprise Portal has a menu bar that includes the following four menus:
- File
- The File menu has options for working with workspaces, setting a trace, and exiting the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. The Trace Options are used only as instructed by a IBM customer support representative.
- Edit
- The Edit menu has editing options for workspace properties, historical data collection configuration, policies, situations, user IDs, queries, and object groups.
- View
- The View menu has options for opening other workspaces for a Navigator item, hiding or showing the toolbars and status bar, refreshing the data in this workspace, turning off sound for events, and for opening other Navigator views.
- Help
- The Help menu opens the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Help, a 10-minute tour to give you some hands-on experience, and links to the IBM website.
Also available are menus that open when you right-click an item in the Navigator or a view in the workspace.
In browser mode you can also use the browser menu bar, which is displayed just below the title bar.
If your user ID does not have View or Modify permission for a function or does not have Workspace Author Mode permission, you will not see certain items in the menus, including the pop-up menus. For example, if you have no Workspace Author Mode permission, the Properties menu item is not displayed.
- Toolbar
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Your user ID requires Workspace Author Mode permission to create and maintain workspaces, including links.
The toolbar has four tool groupings:
Returns to the previous workspace. Click the list button to see and select from a history of workspaces as they were opened. The selected workspace refreshes with the most recent sampling data from the agent. This icon is not available in browser mode. Use the Back tool in your browser instead.
Moves forward to the next workspace. Click the list button to see and select from a history of workspaces that were opened after this one. The selected workspace refreshes with the most recent sampling data from the agent. This icon is not available in browser mode. Use the Forward tool in your browser instead.
Desktop mode only: Opens a new Tivoli Enterprise Portal window. Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + N.
If you are using the Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser client, you can also open a new window using the browser's File > New Window menu option. Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + N.
Saves the current workspace properties, including any changes to views and links. Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + S.
Opens the Properties editor for this workspace. Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + R.
Opens the History Collection Configuration window to define and start historical collection for the specified monitoring agents and attribute groups. Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + H.
Opens the Workflow editor to customize policies for automation. Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + W.
Opens the Situation editor for viewing, editing, and creating situations that alert you when the conditions they describe have been met. When you use this method to open the Situation editor instead of through the Navigator item pop-up menu, the situation is not associated with any Navigator item. Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + E.
Opens the Administer Users window for adding and removing user IDs and changing user permissions. Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + U.
Opens the Query editor. When you use this method to open the Query editor (instead of opening the Query editor through the Properties editor), you can view and customize queries but you cannot assign them to table and chart views. Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + Q.
Opens the Object Group editor for creating and working with groups, such as managed systems and situations. Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + O.
Opens the Performance Analyzer Configuration window for creating analytical tasks. Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + F.
Pauses or resume automatic refresh of the data in the workspace views. The tool is disabled if no refresh interval has been set for the workspace (View → Refresh Every). Keyboard shortcut: Shift + Esc.
Stops loading the workspace. If the workspace is set to refresh at intervals (View → Refresh Every), the refresh stops until the next interval. Keyboard shortcut: Shift + Esc.
Reloads the saved workspace and refreshes the data in the workspace views. Keyboard shortcut: F5.
Opens the workspace gallery panel containing selectable thumbnail images representing the workspaces that are associated with the currently selected navigator item. Images are only displayed if the workspace has been previously accessed. Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + G.
Turns sound off or on for open events. Enabling or disabling sound for an event is controlled through the Situation editor.
Replaces the view you click next with a pie chart, the properties of which you can customize for the data you want to include.
Replaces the view you click next with a bar chart, the properties of which you can customize for the data you want to plot.
Replaces the view you next click inside with a plot chart, which you can then customize for the data you want to include.
Replaces the view you next click inside with an area chart, which you can then customize for the data you want to include.
Replaces the view you next click with a circular gauge chart, which you can then customize for the data you want to show.
Replaces the view you next click with a linear gauge chart, which you can then customize for the data you want to show.
The notepad view is a simple text editor for writing notes about the workspace.
The table view shows a column for each attribute requested by the query and one or more rows of data. You can also get table views to show data samplings over a period of time. 
The message log view shows the status of events that have been opened on the entire monitored enterprise and can include up to 100 row entries at a time.
The universal message console view displays situation and policy activities as they happen, such as when a situation has been created or deleted or a policy has been activated.
The graphic view places Navigator items and their alerts as icons on a map or a picture to represent your monitored environment. Alerts show on these icons just as they do in the Navigator.
The take action view enables you to send a command to a managed system.
The terminal view starts a 3270 or 5250 session for working with z/OS applications, or a Telnet session for working with the TCP/IP network.
The browser view opens the Tivoli Enterprise Portal integrated browser for accessing web pages and web applications.
A topology view can be added to a workspace to show the arrangement of monitored components associated with its Navigator item. Most Navigator items have at least one topology source available for the topology view, and some have multiple topology sources from which to chose.
The situation event console view shows the status of events that have been opened on this branch of the Navigator, such as the state and how long the event has been open.
The common event console view is able to integrates events from multiple event repositories: Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server, Tivoli Enterprise Console event server, and Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer. 
The Tivoli Enterprise Console® event viewer integrates events from the Tivoli Enterprise Console Server with those from the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server.
For performance analysis, you can specify a time span to use for the workspaces that get opened. Historical navigation mode is easily started and stopped, and you can adjust the time span. You can hide the toolbar with View →Toolbar.
Each view in the workspace also has a title bar that includes these buttons:
Brings up the Properties editor for the view. This button does not display if the view has no properties.
Shows or hides the view toolbar. This button does not display if the view has no toolbar.
Splits the view horizontally into two separate views.
Splits the view vertically into two separate views.
Maximizes the view, at which time the button becomes a Restore button so you can restore the view to its original size.
Removes the view from the workspace.
Many views have a toolbar of functions that are applicable to that view. For example, the
Time Span tool is displayed for table views,
bar charts, and plot charts that query attribute groups that are historical
in nature or that have been configured for historical data collection.You can turn off the display of both the view title bar and toolbar through View →View Toolbars.
- Navigator
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The Navigator Physical view shows the hierarchy of your monitored enterprise, from the top level (
Enterprise) down to individual groupings
of information collected by monitoring agents. Every item in the Navigator
has at least one workspace associated with it. When you click an item
in the Navigator the default workspace is displayed in the
application window.The Navigator provides a physical view of your monitored network, organized by operating system platform, system type, Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring product (agents), and the attribute groups from which the agents can collect information.
Small colored event indicator (such as
, 
, and
) icons overlay Navigator icons when a situation
(a test of certain conditions) becomes true. As you move up the Navigator
hierarchy, multiple events are consolidated to show only the indicator
with the highest severity.You might see
More... indicators in the Navigator. These indicators keep
the tree compact so you can see more alerts in the viewable area without
having to scroll. Click More... to
expand that branch of the tree.The tool for refreshing the Navigator view includes a count of the monitoring agent changes (added or removed) that are waiting to be updated. For example, six pending updates are shown as
6 Apply
pending updates. Tivoli Enterprise Portal also comes with a Navigator Logical view that initially shows one Navigator item. To change to the Navigator Logical view, select it from the
Navigator view list 
. You can also edit the Logical view and define new Navigator
views for any logical hierarchy. For example, you might have a Navigator
view for Manufacturing and another for Marketing.The right border of the Navigator view has a
button
that hides the Navigator and expands the adjacent workspace views
to fill the gap. Click 
to restore
its original size. You can also click 
<Navigator name> in the right-most section
of the status bar to restore the Navigator view; or right-click it
to see a list of Navigator views to select from. - Workspace
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The workspace is the working area of the application window and consists of one or more views.
A view is a pane in the workspace, typically a chart or table showing data collected from a monitoring agent, such as the process detail running on the UNIX operating system. A view can be split either vertically or horizontally into two separate, independent views.
Every item in the Navigator has a default workspace associated with it. Some items might have multiple workspaces, which are accessible from the
Workspace
gallery or from the Navigator item pop-up menu.A workspace can be linked to other workspaces. A link can be context-sensitive, whereby you click a
link in a table row or right-click a table row or a chart
data series to link to more detailed information about one of the
attributes in the row or data series. - Status bar
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The status bar has several sections showing the following, starting from the left:
Hub
Time, which is the local time at the hub monitoring server- Server Available (or
offline if you see a red "X" over the server icon), which is the status
of the connection to the portal server
- Workspace name, portal server name, and port number, and the user name. If the user is in workspace administration mode, *ADMIN MODE* is displayed.
- If the Navigator view is minimized, a Navigator button is displayed for you to click to restore
the named Navigator.
You can turn off the display of the status bar through the View menu.