Patent ID: 8311979

Claim:
A system for displaying an application and server map on a systems manager display comprising: a configuration of a plurality of data gathering points from a plurality of servers on a computing system, said data gathering points capable of gathering data of computing system activities, the gathered data including identification of devices on the computing system, functions of such devices and relationships between the identified devices on the computing system; a relational database for storing gathered data containing information about relationships between data points in the plurality of data points and for storing data about devices on the computing system and functions and relationships between devices; a computing system monitoring program that identifies locations on the computing system for placement of monitors for tracking activities of the devices identified on the computing system; a plurality of monitors deployed in accordance with the computing system monitoring program for importing information to a computing system operations display; and a computing system operations display for generating and displaying information imported from said plurality of monitors related to the relationships and activities between identified devices on the computing system.