Patent ID: 7337349
Filing Date: 2008-02-26
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for monitoring the status of a plurality of components in a data processing system, comprising: requesting, by a user, a web page that includes a status for said plurality of components; responsive to said request, calling a panel servlet; dynamically generating, by said panel servlet, an HTML file that will be used to display said status for said plurality of components; including a plurality of status servlets, each one of said plurality of said status servlets associated with one of said plurality of components; for each one of said plurality of components: detecting a movement of a mouse over a particular displayable status image for a particular one of said plurality of components, said movement requesting additional information about a status of said particular one of said plurality of components; ALT/TITLE text in said particular displayable status image statically set to default ALT/TITLE text; attempting to retrieve, by a particular one of said plurality of status servlets that is associated with said particular one of said plurality of components, a textual description of additional information about said status of said particular one of said plurality of components; responsive to said attempt to retrieve being successful, setting said ALT/TITLE text to said textual description; and responsive to said attempt to retrieve being unsuccessful, said ALT/TITLE text remaining set to said default ALT/TITLE.