Patent ID: 7549124

Claim:
In a computer system having a graphical user interface including a display and a user interface selection device, a method of archiving within a client management tool for collecting measurements associated with a network and client devices on the network, wherein the client management tool performs both a client management function and an archiving function based on the collected measurements, said method comprising: receiving an entry selection indicative of a user selection, at the client management tool, to archive client management data, wherein the client management data comprises at least one of capacity planning data or performance monitoring data corresponding- to measurements collected by the client management tool; obtaining a selection of a set of client management data; creating, within the client management tool, an archive file having the selected set of client management data; and receiving, at the client management tool, another entry selection indicative of a user selection to restore an archived file, wherein receiving the user selection to restore an archive file includes selecting one of the files in a list of archived files.