Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server and clients

The Tivoli Enterprise Portal and the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server work together to provide access to real-time and historical data collected by the monitoring agents.

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 and can also run as a Docker container.

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 installed on a Windows or Linux system.
• Desktop client downloaded and run by IBM® Web Start for Java, and updated at every startup.
  Note: You can also use Open Web Launch, an open-source Java Web Start replacement, to run your Tivoli Enterprise Portal client. For more information, see Open Web Launch.

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

The portal server also includes the optional dashboard data provider which is used by Dashboard Application Services Hub to retrieve read-only monitoring data from the hub monitoring server and monitoring agents. Dashboard Application Services Hub can display this data in monitoring dashboard applications such as the IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboards for Servers or in custom dashboards.