A computing systems data reporting system is comprised of a processing
component and a reporting component. The processing component includes a
configuration file and a system analysis and aggregation executable
program module. The system analysis and aggregation executable module
utilizes the input and output directory information from the
configuration file to collect performance, usage and security data from
sources such as those described above. The reporting component comprises
an XML output memory component for storing aggregated data received from
the executable module of the processing component. As XML data is passed
to the reporting component, the XML data is transformed for publication
via an Internet-based web page such that the data is viewable by
interested users on a near real-time basis.