Patent ID: 6865717

Claim:
A method for generating a status page to display on a computer display, comprising: receiving a request for status information on a resource; determining an operation being performed with respect to the resource, wherein the operation is one of a management operation for the resource; generating data to display a progress bar indicating a percent of the operation that has completed, wherein a first part of the progress bar indicates a percent of the operation that has completed and a second part of the progress bar indicates a percent of the operation that has not completed; determining an attribute of the operation, wherein the determined attribute indicates a reason the operation is being performed; and generating data to display information with one of the first part or second part of the progress bar indicating the determined attribute of the operation, wherein the data to display information indicating the determined attribute of the operation indicates a reason the operation is being performed and wherein the data to display the progress bar indicates a percent of the operation that has completed and a percent of the operation that has not completed.