Patent ID: 7032186

Claim:
A method for representing a resource in a computing system environment, the method comprising the steps of: creating an object to represent a resource in the computing system environment, the object being created in a manner associating the object with at least one location within an object hierarchy such that the object becomes a child object of at least one parent object in object hierarchy, the object hierarchy representing relationships between resources in the computing system environment which are represented by objects in object hierarchy, the at least one location with which the object is associated including a home location identifying a home object in object hierarchy under which the object is initially associated as a child object, so as to define a home context for the object; receiving a simple name for the object to uniquely identify that object; assigning an object identifier to the object, the object identifier including at least the simple name of the object and a home of the object, the home of the object being assigned as the home location identifying the home object for the object in object hierarchy; assigning a suffix to the home of the object if the home of the object is not unique in the computing system environment, such that object identifiers for objects having a home that is not unique will be different from each other based on the suffix; displaying at least one representation of the object on a graphical user interface, each of the at least one representation of the object including the simple name of the object; determining whether a home condition exists for one of the at least one representation of the object displayed on the graphical user interface; if a home condition exists for one of the at least one representation of the object displayed on the graphical user interface, including the home and assigned suffix of the object in the representation of the one of the at least one representation of the object displayed on the graphical user interface, and if a home condition does not exist, omitting the home and suffix of the object from the representation of the one of the at least one representation of the object displayed on the graphical user interface.