A system and method is provided for gathering and aggregating operational
metrics (e.g., performance metrics, process events, health monitor state,
server state, event metric data, and status metric data) for a plurality
of members (e.g., computers, servers, machines) configured as an entity
and for a plurality of entities as a singular entity. In one embodiment,
the system and method provides for operational metrics of members and
entities to be aggregated and retrieved as a single result set, such that
entity wide operational metrics can be acquired, monitored and displayed
as a single entity. In one embodiment, at least one of the plurality of
members has a gathering and aggregation system adapted to gather
operational metric data from the plurality of members and aggregate the
operational metric data into a unified result set.