The invention features a method and apparatus for displaying the status of
networked resources, including rendering in a fishbone layout a hierarchy
that includes a plurality of resource profiles and a plurality of
dependency relationships among resource profiles in the plurality of
resource profiles, where the resource profiles represent networked
resources. The invention also features a method and apparatus for
displaying the status of networked resources, to include rendering
fishbone layouts in a snowflake layout. Each fishbone layout features a
hierarchy with resource profiles and dependency relationships among the
resource profiles. The resource profiles represent networked resources.
Hierarchies in the snowflake layout share a common root.