Patent ID: 7689628

Claim:
A method of monitoring a plurality of resource elements in a networked environment, each resource element having multiple associated attributes which can be monitored, said method comprising: enabling a user to select desired individual ones of a set of resource elements as a resource pool and an attribute of interest, said user to select said set of resource elements from said plurality of resource elements and said attribute of interest from said multiple associated attributes; polling each of said set of resource elements to retrieve a corresponding plurality of sample values corresponding to said attribute of interest at different time points; computing a sequence of aggregated values for a combination of all of said set of resource elements and for said attribute of interest at corresponding sequence of time points based on said plurality of sample values, wherein each aggregated value is computed based on the values polled around the same time point for said selected attribute of interest from each of said set of resource elements selected by said user; and displaying said sequence of aggregated values correlated with said sequence of time points, wherein said enabling is performed prior to said monitoring, said computing and said displaying, wherein said computing comprises calculating each of said sequence of aggregated values according to a formula, wherein each aggregated value is calculated by applying said formula to the values polled around the same time point from each of said set of resource elements selected by said user, wherein said formula is one of sum, mean, median, and variance computed from said plurality of sample values.