Patent ID: 8595652

Claim:
A computer program product, tangibly stored on a machine readable medium, comprising an operating system, the operating system causing one or more machines to perform operations comprising: expanding an expandable component tree graphic, the expandable component tree graphic comprising a plurality of parent icons and a plurality of child icons, wherein the plurality of parent icons are expandable to reveal respective child icons and at least one of the plurality of child icons is associated with a system component; changing a plurality of dynamic component graphics associated with the plurality of parent icons and the plurality of child icons, wherein the system component has a set of related dynamic component graphics associated therewith, wherein the set of related dynamic component graphics in the plurality of dynamic component graphics are adapted to change to graphics mapped to parameters in a database of characteristics of the system component based on why a change related to the system component associated with the at least one of the plurality of child icons has occurred; and configuring a configurable sorting system to pass a dynamic component graphic up the expandable component tree graphic from the at least one of the plurality of child icons to at least one of the plurality of parent icons based on a configuration of the sorting system.