Patent ID: 7392485

Claim:
A method of providing a computing device control interface for centrally controlling a plurality of networked computing devices, the method comprising: displaying a number of actions to be executed on one or more counters related to specific functions of a number of networked computing devices, the counters chosen from a set of counters, the choice based on a designated role of the networked computing devices in an enterprise network; obtaining a user selection of the number of actions; generating an action icon representing a control of the user-selected number of actions; displaying a set of graphical action icons for selection by a user, wherein each action icon represents a control to one or more actions to be executed on one or more counters of one or more computing devices; displaying a set of graphical computing device icons wherein each graphical computing device icon represents a control to one or more networked computing devices; obtaining a selection of initializing the one or more actions controlled by a graphical action icon; obtaining a selection of initializing the one or more networked computing devices controlled by a graphical computing device icon; and instructing the one or more actions controlled by the selected graphical action icon to execute on the one or more counters of each networked computing device controlled by the selected graphical computing device icon.