Patent ID: 7930381

Claim:
A method for managing a heterogeneous environment of applications and application enablers, comprising: collecting, by management console hardware including a processor, from an application agent on a physical system hosting a cluster management application and through a plurality of application servers operating on the physical system hosting the cluster management application, performance data of the applications and the application enablers, the applications and the application enablers operating on the application servers organized as a cluster, the application servers being managed by the cluster management application, where a system management application running on the management console hardware permits access to computing performance data provided by an operating system of the physical system, collected by an operating system agent installed on the physical system, and reported to the system management application; collecting, by the management console hardware through the cluster management application, topology information linking the application servers with the physical system on which the application servers operate; retrieving, by the management console hardware, on the physical system hosting the cluster management application the performance data of the applications and the application enablers, and the topology information; sending the performance data and the topology information as retrieved, by the management console hardware, to the system management application; permitting access, by the management console hardware via the system management application, to the performance data of the applications and the application enablers that have been sent; and, using the topology information, by the management console hardware, linking the system management application to the computing performance data provided by the operating system of the physical system on which the applications and application enablers of the cluster operate.