Abstract: A system is provided for systematically checking for and retrieving data from a known, public system to a system inside company firewall restraints while being able to function automatically once initial set up is complete. This data is then processed and stored into an internal database for the express purpose of allowing timely access to stability and configuration information.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is a method for monitoring various data sources for events indicative of a current or potential system health problem, thereby automating management of system health monitoring, prediction, and notification, and providing the ability to correct said system health issues in the environment of a multiprocessor system.

Abstract: A dynamic workload management system enables system administrators to easily identify installed applications and to assign them to affinity groupings in order of importance to the enterprise and to enable the system administrators to save and restore multiple configurations. The workload configuration is continually updated based on the hardware utilization measurements of the application groups that make up a workload configuration. The software interface of the system of the invention permits the system to dynamically add and remove processors to and from affinity masks that are automatically set up. This feature of the invention allows the application groups to consume CPU resources according to their priority.

Abstract: A method is provided for scanning each partition and service processor of a Cellular Multi-Processor System which hold several different operating systems therein. Event information is garnered from multiple Windows Event Logs and consolidated on a Central Database where it can be useful to analyze system operations and thus increase availability of the systems for Users.