Patent ID: 7921200

Claim:
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer usable program code for performing operations that manage computing resources, the operations comprising: identifying at least one target attribute associated with a plurality of computing resources, each of the plurality of computing resources comprising an attribute value corresponding with the at least one target attribute; dynamically monitoring and collecting within a repository the attribute values of the at least one target attribute from the plurality of computing resources, wherein dynamically monitoring comprises detecting changes in the attribute values; determining, based on the collected attribute values, a set of two or more computing resources of the plurality of computing resources with the same target attribute values for the at least one target attribute; associating the determined set of computing resources with a group of computing resources; determining a desired management operation to be executed on the computing resources associated with the group of computing resources, the desired management operation selected from a stored set of operations associated with the group of computing resources; generating a single command comprising instructions for executing the desired operation; and simultaneously transmitting the single command across a network to each of the computing resources associated with the group of computing resources.