Patent ID: 9553948
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method for displaying a graphical user interface for a virtualized computing environment including a plurality of host computers, each having one or more virtual machines running therein, wherein the virtualized computing environment is configured with one or more monitoring profiles for monitoring a status of objects included in the virtualized computing environment, the method comprising: displaying a first section that comprises one or more monitoring profiles to be managed and selected for viewing, wherein each monitoring profile includes one or more rules and each rule corresponds to one or more actions that are performed if the rule is violated, wherein the one or more actions are identified in the first section as one or more unique numeric values that are selectable by a user, wherein each of the one or more actions is represented by a unique number, wherein the first section includes a hierarchically-arranged view of the one or more monitoring profiles, wherein the one or more monitoring profiles are organized into a folder for cluster health profiles, a folder for data center health profiles, a folder for host computer health profiles, a folder for network health profiles, a folder for virtual center health profiles and a folder for virtual machine health profiles that are presented at the same hierarchy level, and wherein displaying the first section comprises: displaying a second section that comprises a first set of rules associated with a selected monitoring profile and corresponding actions associated with each rule in the first set of rules.