Patent ID: 7373557

Claim:
A method for monitoring the performance of at least two data processing elements, the method comprising the steps of: providing a portable performance monitoring system that includes two or more capture devices and at least one monitoring device; releasably connecting a first one of the two or more capture devices to a first one of the data processing elements, the first capture device capturing performance monitoring data related to the first data processing element; releasably connecting a second one of the two or more capture devices to a second one of the data processing elements, the second capture device capturing performance monitoring data related to the second data processing element; sending the performance monitoring data captured by the first capture device to the monitoring device; sending the performance monitoring data captured by the second capture device to the monitoring device; analyzing at least some of the performance monitoring data received from the first and second capture devices via the monitoring device; providing an output; and disconnecting the first capture device from the first data processing element, and disconnecting the second capture device from the second data processing element.