Patent ID: 6606658
Filing Date: 2003-08-12
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
In a network in which a plurality of computing servers, having different performance capabilities and each containing a CPU, memory and a disk, and a plurality of clients are connected via a data processing server so as to communicate with each other, a server resource usage display device for displaying resource usage status of each of said plurality of servers is provided and said data processing server comprises:means for measuring processing capacity ratios among said plurality of servers using common criteria applied to each server for at least one of the CPU, the memory and the disk as resources; means for repeatedly measuring resource usage status data for each of said plurality of servers at a predetermined time interval with respect to at least one of the CPU, the memory and the disk; means for applying said processing capacity ratios onto said resource usage status data so as to obtain comparable resource usage data among said plurality of servers; and means for displaying said comparable resource usage status data among said plurality of servers at each of said plurality of clients.