Patent ID: 8356309

Claim:
A system for graphically displaying management data retrieved from an extensible management server, the system comprising: a management application configured for execution on a client computer; and a server computer configured with a management interface, a scripting engine, and a data store having a plurality of management scripts, a management class library, and a graphical display application programming interface (API) stored therein, wherein the management interface is configured to receive and respond to requests from the management application to execute the management scripts by way of the scripting engine, and wherein the management class library has a plurality of management classes communicating with one or more managed computer systems, wherein the management scripts are specific for the management classes and configured to instruct the scripting engine to execute the management classes, wherein the scripting engine is configured to execute a selected management class of the management class library as instructed by the management scripts, wherein the selected management class is configured to retrieve management data from at least one of the managed computer systems, wherein the management scripts are configured to utilize the graphical display API to generate graphical display instructions for use by the management application in graphically displaying the management data, and wherein the management scripts are configured to instruct the scripting engine to execute a first class of the management classes to obtain handles to at least two of a database, a device, a sensor, an event log, a FRU component, power control, OBSM power management, and OBSM cooling management.