Notes goes mobile –
with MarvelClient!

Client management is what allows administrators to centrally control and monitor Notes and Nomad client settings, behavior, and UI elements for all their end-users. Desktop, bookmarks, applications, locations, connections, notes.ini, local replicas, and more: Anything and everything can be configured automatically and continuously, without the end-user having to do anything.

MarvelClient does this via an adaptive approach. You create overlapping sets of actions that define the outcome you want, which then gets tailored and applied to each user and device individually.

With this, you can provide the perfect setup from the first start, as well as change anything and everything for up-and-running clients. Actions can run once, or apply persistently to ensure a configuration is self-healing, returning to the desired state on every restart. You can manage as much or as little as you want. Whether it is only a single setting or the layout of the entire desktop; all is possible, with fine-grained control. Actions can be limited to users, groups, device types, locations, or hundreds of other possibilities.
In addition, you get detailed data on every aspect of your clients and devices. You can plan your projects based on real data, monitor your progress, and measure success.

HCL Nomad is a Notes client for mobile devices.

With it, you can use Notes applications natively, on any of the supported mobile platforms.

Currently only iPads are supported. But Nomad has also been announced for iPhones and Android devices (tablets and phones).

It can be downloaded from the official App Store here.

• Analyze: Gives you a comprehensive overview of your Notes client landscape. Every piece of information you could ever want to know about your clients, devices, and operating systems.
• Manage: Puts you in control. Manage all the UI and settings, such as: desktop, replicas, recent apps, notes.ini, and much more.
• Mass Change/Delete: Make sure any change to server or path of databases is applied to every aspect of all your clients. Server migrations or consolidations made easy.

Of course, this includes all the condition- and access control functionality you know and love. Have everything apply to the right users, in the right place, and at the right time.

Some limitations due to the nature of the platform apply. A few features of above modules that you know from rich clients are unavailable. In the MC Config database, you can see platform and OS limitations for each functionality.

For now, only iOS on tablets. We plan to support all platforms Nomad will be released on in the future, such as iOS on phones and Android.

MarvelClient with the feature set mentioned above is included in HCL Nomad on mobile devices, for free. Additional functionality might be made available for purchase at a later point.

On your devices: Just Nomad itself. MarvelClient is built-in, available from the get-go.

On your servers:

• If you already have a MarvelClient installation: nothing! Just run an OnlineUpdate to get to the latest version and you can manage Nomad from your existing databases.
• If you are new to MarvelClient: All you need to do is use the installer to deploy the MarvelClient Config and Analyze databases (manual install is also possible), and then configure any actions you want.

See our Setup guide for more information, or also this guide from HCL.

The client component of MarvelClient is built into HCL Nomad itself, nothing needs to be installed there.

You can download the installer for the databases right from this page. If you scroll down, you can find the download form. The installer will also be included in Domino 11.

In the MarvelClient Config database, you configure actions and use conditions and access control to make sure the right actions apply to the right users at the right time.

It works pretty much the same as on rich clients; you even use the same databases on your servers, with the same actions and runtimes for both. Though it might be wise for some action types to have separate settings for the different target platforms.

Nomad is simply treated as a normal Notes client, just on another platform. Using the new platform selection interface, you can choose which actions should run on rich clients, Nomad, or both.

Due to the nature of the platform, some functionality is not available. An example would be the RunProgram action, which you can’t use on iOS. Also, some runtimes behave a bit differently .

You can see the platform and OS limitations of each action in the MC Config database.

But, by and large all major features from the included MarvelClient modules work as they do on the rich client.

There are also some Nomad-specific features available, like managing the Recent Apps page.

It doesn’t change anything for your existing MarvelClient installation.

The feature scope that is included for free with Nomad is limited to mobile platforms, so it does not affect what is available on your Windows/Mac rich clients. It only adds a few new devices and platforms on which you can manage Notes clients.

If you decide to also use MarvelClient for managing Nomad on mobile devices, you do so from your existing Config and Analyze databases. Should those databases have non-default paths, you might need to configure Nomad so it can find them. See our Setup guide for more information, or also this guide from HCL.

We have plans to make some of the other MarvelClient modules also available on Nomad for paying customers. If you already own additional modules beyond MC Basic, and they become available on Nomad, you will be able to use them there straight away.

Please note though: Some cannot be implemented due to platform limitations, so only select modules will become available.

Yes! It is free for all HCL Nomad customers.

Yes. You use the same set of MarvelClient Config and Analyze databases to work with both versions of MarvelClient.

See our Setup guide for more information, or also this guide from HCL.

If you are a paying MarvelClient customer, you can contact panagenda support here.
HCL is handling support for other users of MarvelClient for Nomad, you can contact them here.