Patent ID: 7603459

Claim:
A computer program product for determining active, server-server connections likely needed to handle client requests, said program product comprising: a computer readable storage medium; first program instructions to repeatedly detect active connections between a first server and other servers; and second program instructions to determine a number of times an active connection between said first server and each of said other servers has been detected; third program instructions to determine a respective, approximate time when each of said active connections was last detected; and fourth program instructions to form a table listing said active connections, said number of times each of said active connections has been detected, and said respective, approximate time when each of said active connections was last detected, said table being available for display to a user troubleshooting a problem with said first server; and wherein said first program instructions identify said active connections between said first server and said other servers by detecting a multiplicity of active connections on said first server and filtering out one or more active connections of said multiplicity which utilize ports generally used for system functions; and said first, second, third and fourth program instructions are stored on said computer readable storage medium.