Patent ID: 7047291

Claim:
A method for mapping, said method comprising: identifying transaction steps involving at least one client-server application; identifying components associated with said steps; providing input associated with said steps, from a plurality of probes, said input including: at least one event generated by an application probe; and at least one event generated by a component probe; and correlating said events, wherein the method maps events generated by infrastructure components of a data processing infrastructure with events generated by applications running in said data processing infrastructure, and wherein: said at least one event generated by an application probe is at least one first event that identifies a performance problem with an application, and wherein said at least one first event is represented by a first structured identifier that identifies a position of said at least one first event within said data processing infrastructure and said at least one first event's relationships and dependencies; said at least one event generated by a component probe is at least one second event that identifies a performance problem with a component, and wherein said at least one second event is represented by a second structured identifier that identifies a position of said at least one second event within said data processing infrastructure and said at least one second event's relationships and dependencies; and said correlating of said events is performed based on said first and second structured identifiers.