Patent ID: 7426652

Claim:
A method for providing a user with an application monitoring and disaster recovery management tool, comprising the steps of: deploying a first plurality of intelligent agents within a primary computing environment, said primary computing environment including a primary server executing an application, and wherein each of said first plurality of intelligent agents monitors a metric related to said application; monitoring, by a monitoring and management server module executing on a management server, a plurality of states, each of said plurality of states being rendered by one of said first plurality of intelligent agents, wherein said management server is in communication with said primary computing environment and a secondary computing environment; displaying to a user, via a graphical user interface in communications with said monitoring and management server module, said plurality of states; and performing a failure switch-over from said primary computing environment to a secondary computing environment having a secondary server capable of executing said application in response to a first input received from said user via said graphical interface, wherein said first input is received by said monitoring and management server module as a result of a button click by the user on said graphical user interface; whereby said method allows for disaster recovery and fault tolerance, and limits computing down-time experienced by end users of said primary computing environment.