Patent ID: 6865580

Claim:
A computer-implement method for monitoring one or more objects of a specified class, said class having one or more attributes, each said object having an attribute value associated with each attribute, said method comprising: dynamically identifying the objects of the specified class, said class representing a mass storage device; comparing at least one of the attribute values of each identified object with a threshold value associated with at least one of the attributes in the class, said attributes including a free space attribute, a capacity attribute, and a description attribute; maintaining a list of the identified objects and the attribute values of the identified objects over time; identifying changes in the maintained attribute values of each of the identified object over time; and performing one or more functions in response to comparing and identifying changes including notifying a user of a free space attribute and a description attribute of a specific object if the free space attribute value of the specific object exceeds value associated with the free space attribute of the specific object.