Patent ID: 7613803

Claim:
An apparatus for identifying, monitoring and displaying the status of interfaces in a system, comprising: a middle-ware interface status tool (MIST) that communicates with a system to determine interfaces in the system, monitor the interfaces, and generate an interface status graph (ISG) depicting a status of the interfaces, wherein the system includes at least one sub-system that includes at least one host and a plurality of data objects that are originated, produced and received within the system; means for retrieving information that characterizes the system; means for determining information from a name server (NS), wherein the NS includes a hierarchical directory of the plurality of data objects within the system and object references (ORs) for the data objects; means for receiving event channel status information from one or more event channels, each event channel being operatively connected to the MIST, wherein the event channel status information includes connection status, connection updates, and exception information; and means for receiving server object status from one or more middle-ware servers, each middle-ware server operatively connected to the MIST, wherein the ISG has a structure that depicts the interfaces in the system and the middle-ware interface status tool indicates the mode of operation in which the ISG structure is populated with the information that characterizes the system, determined from the hierarchical directory of the NS, and the ORs from the NS.