Patent ID: 9361139
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: receiving status information regarding a plurality of virtual system components, each of the virtual system components being associated with a respective virtual component category and a respective parent system component; determining a hierarchy of the virtual component categories, the hierarchy comprising a plurality of levels, each of the plurality of levels being associated with a respective one of the virtual component categories; determining a cluster threshold, the cluster threshold defining a maximum number of the virtual system components having an equivalent level of virtual component categories and having common parent system components to be associated with a single node of a topology; determining that a subset of the virtual system components having the equivalent level of virtual component categories and having a common parent system component exceed the cluster threshold; generating the topology based upon the hierarchy and the cluster threshold; representing the subset of the virtual system components using a shared node of the topology; and formatting the topology and the plurality of levels of the hierarchy for display at a user interface.