A system for Internet gateway performance charting includes an internal
network (10) having one or more servers interconnecting a plurality of
computing devices (12). The system also includes an Internet gateway (16)
coupled to the internal network (10) and to the public Internet (14). The
Internet gateway (16) provides connectivity between the internal network
(10) and the public Internet (14). The Internet gateway (16) also executes
an application that gathers statistics on the performance of the Internet
gateway (16) and prepares a file (19) storing statistics information. The
system includes a designated server (18) of the internal network (10) that
executes an application that periodically receives the file (19) from the
Internet gateway (16), processes the file (19), recovers the statistics
information, and populates a database (21) with statistics data. The
system further includes a computing device (12) of the plurality of
computing devices (12) that executes an application that obtains
statistics data from the database (21) and displays selected performance
charts (23) based upon that statistics data such that a user of the
computing device (12)' can view performance charts of the Internet gateway
(16).