Patent ID: 7350149

Claim:
A method of providing a backup reporting framework graphical user interface (GUI), the method comprising: delivering a Web Accessible GUI (WAG) page to a web browser resident on a remote system; launching a GUI component on the remote system; launching a uniquely named Remote Method Invocation (RMI) WAG server associated with the GUI component on the remote system, wherein the uniquely named RMI WAG server is part of a backup storage server; providing a monitor server able to provide monitoring data for a locale being used by the GUI component; and providing, from the remote system, user interaction with the backup storage server, user control of the backup storage server configuration, user control of the backup storage server operation, and access to data on the backup storage server, said data relating at least in part to the state of a backup operation, through at least one of said uniquely named RMI WAG server and said monitor server; wherein the launching of the uniquely named RMI WAG server further comprises launching on the backup storage server, for each GUI launched on the remote system, a single, uniquely named Remote Method Invocation (RMI) WAG server associated with the respective GUI component on the remote system.