Patent ID: 7797569

Claim:
A system for monitoring the status of a plurality of components in a data processing system, comprising: a web page executed by a processor of a computer, that was requested by a user that includes a status for said plurality of components; a panel servlet stored in memory and executed by a processor of a computer, the panel servlet being called responsive to said request; said panel servlet dynamically generating an HTML file that will be used to display said status for said plurality of components; a plurality of status servlets, each one of said plurality of said status servlets stored in memory and executed by a processor of a computer, each of the status servlets being associated with one of said plurality of components; a plurality of status servlets, each one of said plurality of said status servlets executing in memory by a processor of a computer, each of the status servlets being associated with one of said plurality of components; for each one of said plurality of components: said panel servlet including an image tag for one of said plurality of components, said image tag pointing to one of said plurality of status servlets that is associated with said one of said plurality of components; said image tag for said one of said plurality of components including information that is needed in order to perform a Java Management Extensions (JMX) query of said one of said plurality of components; a status request that is placed in said one of said plurality of status servlets; said one of said plurality of status servlets using information that is included in said status request to generate said JMX query of said one of said plurality of components; said one of said plurality of status servlets receiving a status value for said one of said plurality of components in response to said JMX query; said one of said plurality of status servlets sending, to said web browser, a displayable status image that corresponds to said status value for said one of said plurality of components; said web browser displaying said displayable status image; means for detecting a movement of a mouse over a particular displayable status image for a particular one of said plurality of components, said movement requesting additional information about a status of said particular one of said plurality of components; ALT/TITLE text in said particular displayable status image statically set to default ALT/TITLE text; a particular one of said plurality of status servlets that is associated with said particular one of said plurality of components attempting to retrieve a textual description of additional information about said status of said particular one of said plurality of components; responsive to said attempt to retrieve being successful, said ALT/TITLE text set to said textual description; and responsive to said attempt to retrieve being unsuccessful, said ALT/TITLE text remaining set to said default ALT/TITLE.