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Portal Explorer Overview

The Unicenter MP Portal Explorer lets you view the relationships between BPVs or managed objects in tree form and view the details of a selected object in the object tree. You can launch the Portal Explorer from either Business Process View scoreboards or Resource scoreboards.

The Portal Explorer is broken into an interactive tree in the left pane and the corresponding views and tasks in the right pane. The left pane includes a tree structure list of objects for navigation purposes. For example, when the Portal Explorer launches from a Business Process View scoreboard, the left pane displays Business Process View objects. When the explorer launches from a managed resource scoreboard, the left pane tree shows the resource group (class) as the root, and underneath the root, lists the objects that belong to the class.

Upon selecting an object in the left pane, the right pane displays various tabbed views about that object. The displayed views depend on the type of selected object. The views include the following:

Object Severity Browser

Appears for WorldView objects and DSM objects.

Notebook

Appears for WorldView objects and DSM objects. The view shows the property and value pair of the selected object. For a WorldView object, the properties are grouped and showed in different sub-tabbed pages.

Explorer

Appears if you select a virtual root object, such as a resource group. The view displays the name of the objects that belong to the selected resource group (class).

Event

Appears for DSM objects.

Event Console

Appears for Node (Hosts and Workstations) WorldView objects. The view is actually the event console that shows all events that are sent from the selected node.

Alert View

Appears for alert-aware WorldView objects, including BPV, Node, Network Segment, Router, and so on. The view shows in the alert console all the alerts that are associated with the selected object.

By right-clicking to select a Worldview object in the tree, you may see menu pop ups. You can act on the object based on the available menu items. Also, by selecting an object in the right-hand pane, menu actions may appear depending on the type of object. For example, you can launch Performance Reports, agent dashboards, and other interfaces such as Unicenter Configuration Manager and Active Directory Explorer.

As a Unicenter MP administrator, you can set up a security policy to secure some views from certain roles of users in your organization.