Patent ID: 8095507

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising a plurality of instructions to cause a computer to: automatically traverse a network interconnecting a set of relational databases in a distributed database system, to identify a plurality of paths, at least a path in said plurality of paths starting in a source database in said set and ending in a destination database in said set, each relational database in the set being controlled by a local database management server (DBMS) cooperating with at least another DBMS to maintain overall consistency of data stored by said distributed database system, each DBMS being responsive to queries in a relational database language, each relational database in said set comprising data accessible via said queries as rows in tables related to one another; automatically obtain a group of statistics on performance of a plurality of components in said distributed database system by querying at least said source database and said destination database; wherein said plurality of components comprises at least a first database process of said source database, a second database process of said destination database, and said path between said source database and said destination database; and automatically generate at least one display comprising an identifier of said path and physically adjacent thereto statistics in said group associated with said path.