Patent ID: 8307011

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving a plurality of utilization metrics from at least one entity, each utilization metric indicating resource availability for the at least one entity; comparing each of the plurality of utilization metrics to a plurality of configured thresholds, wherein the plurality of thresholds comprises at least a first threshold and a second threshold; identifying a relative position of each utilization metric with respect to the plurality of configured thresholds for each of the utilization metrics; converting each of the plurality of utilization metrics to a mapped value based on the identified relative position of the utilization metric; wherein when the utilization metric is less than each configured threshold, the conversion of the utilization metric to a mapped value is based on the utilization metric and the lowest threshold of the configured thresholds; wherein when the utilization metric is between the first threshold and the second threshold, the conversion of the utilization metric to a mapped value is based on the utilization metric, the first threshold, and the second threshold; wherein when the utilization metric is greater than each configured threshold, the conversion of the utilization metric to a mapped value is based on the utilization metric and the greatest threshold of the configured thresholds; converting the plurality of mapped values to a plurality of percentage values; calculating an overall utilization for the at least one entity by identifying an average value of the plurality of percentage values; and generating a graphical representation of the overall utilization.