Patent ID: 7027051

Claim:
A method for displaying resource utilization information for a plurality of resources in a data processing system, comprising the steps of: classifying each of a plurality of application processes operating on the data processing system into one of a plurality of application process classifications, wherein each application process classification is defined by a classification rule using at least one of attributes identifying a user that submitted one or more of the application processes, a group that submitted one or more of the application processes and a fully qualified path of one or more of the application processes; and for each application process classification, performing the following steps: determining a time period in which to measure the resource utilization information; monitoring the resource utilization information based on the time period; and displaying a result of the monitoring of the resource utilization information, wherein the result of the monitoring of the resource utilization information is dynamically displayed so as to provide an indication of utilization of a resource within the plurality of resources relative to a reference resource entitlement level.