The invention provides a method for determining the impact of a failure of a component on one or more services that the component is supporting. The method receiving a data feed from a processing node, the data feed containing data indicative of the identity and system status of a component running on...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US20050144188?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20050144188 - Determining the impact of a component failure on one or more services