Patent ID: 8229884
Filing Date: 2012-07-24
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of monitoring each of multiple applications at a generic monitoring console, the method being performed at the console and comprising: retrieving various records from a monitoring database for various ones of the multiple applications, each retrieved record being in a generic format common across all of the multiple applications, corresponding to a particular one of the multiple applications, and being generated according to a monitoring script corresponding to the particular one of the multiple applications, the retrieved record setting forth a monitored indicia as retrieved from the particular one of the multiple applications according to the corresponding script, the monitored indicia corresponding to metrics regarding utilization of resources of a computing device that the multiple applications are loaded on, wherein the metrics include a last modified time stamp of a file in a directory of the computing device, and a count of a number of files in the directory of the computing device; and displaying monitoring information for various ones of the multiple applications as generated from the various records.