Patent ID: 8819561
Filing Date: 2014-08-26
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of providing management of network services provided by an intermediary device, the method comprising: (a) invoking a visualizer tool for an intermediary device that manages network traffic between a plurality of clients and a plurality of servers, the intermediary device executing one or more virtual servers managing a plurality of services executing on the plurality of servers, the plurality of services providing one or more applications to the plurality of clients; (b) identifying, by a visualizer tool, a configuration and an operational status of the one or more virtual servers and one or more services managed by the one or more virtual servers; (c) determining, by the visualizer tool from the configuration, two or more services having a common set of configuration properties and managed by a first virtual server; (d) establishing, by the visualizer tool, a service container comprising an identification of the common set of configuration properties of the two or more services; and (e) displaying, by the visualizer tool via a user interface, a graphical representation of: (1) the configuration and the operational status of the first virtual server and (2) the service container identifying the common set of configuration properties of the two or more services.