A system manager tests, administers and monitors, and/or diagnoses problems with a distributed system having a plurality of computing machines. Each machine includes an event monitoring agent and the system manager comprises a data collection module (DCM), a data management module (DMM), a data storing...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US20040019894?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US20040019894 - Managing a distributed computing system
