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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2004
Mark Rambacher, Littleton, MA (US);
Richard Urmston, Westborough, MA (US);
Deepak Narain, Waltham, MA (US);
Mark Rambacher, Littleton, MA (US);
Richard Urmston, Westborough, MA (US);
Deepak Narain, Waltham, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method and system is provided for managing resource groups in a computer system having an automatic availability capability. In one embodiment, a method is provided which may be performed in a computer system comprising a plurality of resources, a monitor for monitoring at least some of the plurality of resources, an agent to configure resource groups, each resource group specifying a group of resources to be monitored by the monitor, and a graphical user interface (GUI) that communicates with the monitor and provides an interface for a user to monitor a resource group. The method comprises: (A) providing, via the GUI, customized presentations to the user for monitoring resource groups of different types so that the GUI provides different presentations to the user in monitoring different types of resource groups.