The Merkato Portal

The portal is the entry point to gain access to the agent applications, as well as to obtain historical allocation and billing information. The opening screen looks similar to the one in the illustration.

If you enter a valid username and password, and click Login, the top-level agent screen appears.

The central portion of the window shows the Merkato Agent. This is the express agent interface. Below this area, if you scroll down, are the agent status screens, indicating recent allocations and market price.

To the right, the pull-down user interface menu allows you to select the Wizard, Express, or Desktop interface.

The left portion of the page contains a navigation bar, which provides access to all pages of the portal:

• Agent – (The page shown) contains the Express agent interface, the user interface selection pull-down, the allocation table, and market price graphs.
• Traffic – Contains Monthly, Weekly, and Daily graphs of traffic associated with this user.
• Charge Reports – Opens an interface that allows you to create queries into the Merkato database. Using these tools you can determine the ongoing cost of your bandwidth allocations.
• Transaction Data – Opens a billing interface that allows you to create queries into the Merkato database, providing a history of transactions for your account. The data is downloaded as a spreadsheet file.
• Version Information – For the Merkato and the database it uses, provides the version, build date, and installation date. Use this information to determine what version of Merkato you are using.
• Logout – Returns user to login screen.