Patent ID: 7827266

Claim:
A method of controlling multiple computer platforms, comprising: storing a command line task for a plurality of tasks in a database, wherein the command line task for each task is stored for each of the multiple computer platforms for which the command line task is executable, each command line task including a command name, related parameters, and a platform type; associating the command line task for one of the plurality of tasks for each of the multiple computer platforms with a task description in the database; selecting the task description for one of the plurality of tasks from the database by a user, for application of the associated command line task to computing systems having at least one of the multiple computer platforms; identifying the computing systems on which the associated command line task is executable; enabling the user to select at least one computing system from a list of the identified computing systems on which the associated command line task is executable; and applying the associated command line task to the selected computing systems.