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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1997
Neal A Haggard, Cary, NC (US);
Chris L Molloy, Raleigh, NC (US);
Gary M Quesenberry, Raleigh, NC (US);
Robert C Robinson, Durham, NC (US);
Henry L Stuck, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of monitoring a computer network by collecting resource data from a plurality of network nodes, analyzing the resource data to generate historical performance data, and reporting the historical performance data to another network node. The network nodes can be servers operating on different platforms, and resource data is gathered using separate programs having different application programming interfaces for the respective platforms. The analysis can generate daily, weekly, and monthly historical performance data, based on a variety of resources including CPU utilization, memory availability, I/O usage, and permanent storage capacity. The report may be constructed using a plurality of documents related by hypertext links. The hypertext links can be color-coded in response to at least one performance parameter in the historical performance data surpassing an associated threshold. An action list can also be created in response to such an event.