Patent ID: 8577960

Claim:
A method for providing a status message to a client for a component in a distributed computing landscape, the method comprising: identifying a memory cache, the memory cache configured to store status information for the component in the distributed computing landscape; identifying one or more prefetch tables, the one or more prefetch tables configured to store status information for the component in the distributed computing landscape; determining that the status information is unavailable from the memory cache; based on a determination that the status information is unavailable from the memory cache, obtaining the status information from the one or more prefetch tables; identifying an accuracy of the status information obtained from the one or more prefetch tables; based on a determination that the accuracy of the status information is less than a threshold, obtaining the status information from the component; identifying a system performance cost to update the one or more prefetch tables with the status information obtained from the component; based on the identified system performance cost, determining whether to update the one or more prefetch tables with the status information obtained from the component; based on a determination to update the one or more prefetch tables, updating the one or more prefetch with the status information obtained from the component; based on a determination to bypass updating the one or more prefetch tables, updating the memory cache with the status information obtained from the component; and displaying the status message for the component to the client, the status message based on the obtained status information.