Patent ID: 7730408

Claim:
A user interface to display, manage and configure an entity, comprising: display objects that represent one or more entities as a whole and individual members a plurality of configurations for members which form the one or more entities, the display objects providing a unified interface for the entity to facilitate user configuration of the entity as if the entity was a single member and the display objects that provide an interface to facilitate the user configurations for individual members; a scope pane that includes the display objects for selection by the user; a results pane that displays output of selected display objects from the scope pane, includes further display objects, and receives user input for configuration of the entity as a whole or receives user input for configuration of the individual members, wherein an output of a selected entity display object comprises an entity-wide view of the aggregate information of all of the members which form the entity represented by the selected display object and wherein an output of a selected individual member display object comprises an individual member view of the information of the individual member, the information comprises at least one of: status, performance, applications, events, or health monitor; and an application deployment wizard configured to facilitate deployment of applications and application resources across the entity and/or to remote computer systems not associated with the entity, wherein the application deployment wizard is configured to expose a manifest that maintains a list of valid application resources that may be deployed, managed and monitored across the entity and/or remote computer systems, wherein the application deployment wizard's list of valid application resources displays at least two selectable load-balancing options for each entity and wherein one of the at least two selectable load-balancing options configures third-party load-balancing and the other option configures no load-balancing.