Patent ID: 8495126

Claim:
A method for managing the deployment of an information handling system, comprising: executing a deployment application on an information handling system, the deployment application including one or more tasks associated with the deployment of the information handling system; automatically determining for a particular task whether an execution time for the particular task is within a predetermined range of execution times; automatically displaying a notification regarding whether the execution time for the task is within a predetermined range of execution times associated with the task; in response to determining that the execution time for the particular task is not within the predetermined range of execution times, automatically performing an error-handling task; determining for the particular task whether the execution time for the particular task is less than an expected execution time; displaying a low-priority notification if the execution time for the particular task is less than the expected execution time; displaying a medium-priority notification if the execution time for the particular task is more than the expected execution time and within the predetermined range of execution times; and displaying a high-priority notification if the execution time for the particular task is not within the predetermined range of execution times.