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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 20, 1997
Randal Lee Bertram, Raleigh, NC (US);
Frederick Scott Hunter Krauss, Raleigh, NC (US);
Margherita LaFauci, Holly Springs, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer managed communication network with user interactive access via a plurality of display terminals and including a plurality of linked network objects with a system for managing said network in which values of a selected parameter are sensed respectively for each of a plurality of selected objects and stored. The stored data is presented in a graph display including a plurality of icons, each icon representing aspects of said values with respect to one of said selected objects. User interactive means for selecting one of said icons are provided together with means responsive to said selecting means for graphically presenting other aspects of said values. In the monitoring of networks, the invention may be used to track network servers which are monitored via a distribution graph in which icons representative of servers are linked to more detailed line graphs of such servers showing the changes in parameter values versus a time line parameter.