Patent ID: 7565610

Claim:
A method of displaying network performance information, comprising: storing performance information for objects in a network at predetermined time intervals; identifying network objects that are a potential root cause of one or more trigger firings in the network; displaying an end to end host-to-storage topographical map of the network including at least one of the identified network objects, the topographical map comprising: a host region not including storage devices or connectivity devices and comprising at least one of the identified network objects associated with hosts in the network; a storage region not including hosts or connectivity devices and comprising at least one of the identified network objects associated with storage devices in the network; and a connectivity region not including hosts or storage devices and positioned between the host region and the storage region and comprising at least one of the identified network objects associated with connectivity devices in the network configured to be connected to at least one of the hosts and the storage devices in the network; displaying a first performance region providing performance information for at least one of the identified network objects; and displaying a second performance region providing graphical performance information for a plurality of the network objects at a first time specified in the first performance region by a time indicator.