Patent ID: 7424531

Claim:
A system administration console to manage application server resources, comprising: a resource inheritance hierarchy including some levels determined from a tag structure of a system administration console element, the resource inheritance hierarchy being used to determine user privileges in a dynamic presentation of the system administration console; wherein the system administration console is used to perform a plurality of management tasks and wherein the user privileges determine which management tasks a user is allowed perform using the system administration console; wherein the dynamic presentation of the system administration console includes dynamically constructing the system administration console to show forms and fields of the system administration console corresponding to the management tasks the user is allowed to perform based on the user privileges; wherein the dynamic presentation of the system administration console also includes checking the user privileges using the resource inheritance hierarchy and wherein the user privileges are determined at a tag level so that the user privileges can be granted or overrided at the tag level; and wherein checking the user privileges using the resource hierarchy includes determining if a group to which the user belongs has access to an attribute, then determining if the group has access to a parent of the attribute, then repeating until the group's access at each level of the resource inheritance hierarchy has been determined.