SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERFACING WITH A SYSTEM MONITOR

• US 20080313220A1
• Filed: 08/28/2008
• Published: 12/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kirkpatrick, Mark, Morrow, Darrin, Strohmeyer, John
• Granted Patent: US 8,533,688 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3664 Environments for testing or debugging software

Abstract

An interface is provided between a running computer application and a system monitor. The system monitor handles notification messages generated by the computer application. The interface includes an import module to scan a source file, extract notification messages from the source file and store the notification messages in a scan file. The interface includes a manager module to display each notification message in the scan file in a table in a graphical user interface to allow modifications to the data in the table. The data is exported to an export stage. The export module performs any translation required to create a file of the notification messages in a format that is acceptable to the system monitor.

Claims

1. A method for interfacing to a system monitor, comprising:

prior to executing a computer application within a computing device,

extracting one or more notification messages from a source code of a source file;

storing the one or more notification messages in a second location;

detecting duplicate notification messages among the one or more notification messages within the second location;

deleting any duplicate notification messages detected among the one or more notification messages;

associating and displaying a severity level corresponding to each of the one or more notification messages detected by the computer application, the severity level being modifiable by a user.

15. The method recited in claim 1, further comprising assigning a default value to the modifiable severity.

16. The method recited in claim 1, further comprising displaying the one or more notification messages and the modifiable severity in a table in a graphical user interface.

17. The method recited in claim 1, further comprising modifying the modifiable severity, wherein an export file comprises the modified modifiable severity.

18. The method recited in claim 1, further comprising modifying the modifiable location, wherein an export file comprises the modified modifiable location.

19. The method recited in claim 1, further comprising:

storing temporarily the notification messages in a data file in a third location; and

extracting the notification messages from the data file for display in a graphical user interface.

20. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying the one or more notification messages in a graphical user interface rendered on a display device.

21. The method recited in claim 1, further comprising translating a representation of the modifiable severity from numerical to textual to be compatible with a system monitor.

22. The method recited in claim 1, further comprising translating a representation of the severity from textual to numerical to be compatible with a system monitor.

2-14. -14. (canceled)

23. A system for interfacing to a system monitor, comprising:

a computer system maintaining a source file corresponding to a computer application to be monitored that is stored at a first location, the source file containing source code that includes one or more notification messages embedded within the source code, wherein the computer system includes at least a computing device, a display device and a storage device;

an import module executing within the computing device to extract each of the one or more notification messages from the source file, to store each of the one or more notification messages in a scan file, and deleting any duplicate notification messages detected in the scan file;

a manager module to accept a user modifiable severity level and a user modifiable second location into the table, where the modifiable second location specifies a path to a second location where the one or more notification messages is stored by the computer system on the storage device; and

a system monitor module that accesses the data in the table and provides an indicator of severity based upon the modifiable severity level upon discovering the one or more notification messages at the second location.

24. The system recited in claim 23, further comprising means for modifying the data in the table.

25. The system recited in claim 23, further comprising means for converting data in the table to the format acceptable to the system monitor module.

27. The system recited in claim 25, further comprising means for converting severity level data in the table from a numerical format to a text format.

26. The system recited in data 25, further comprising means for converting severity level data in the table from a text format to a numerical format.

28. A tangible computer readable medium containing instructions that when executed perform acts for interfacing to a system monitor, comprising:

prior to executing a computer application within a computing device,

extracting one or more notification messages from a source code of a source file;

storing the one or more notification messages in a second location;

deleting any duplicate notification messages detected among the one or more notification messages extracted from the source code of the source file;

associating and displaying a severity level corresponding to each of the one or more notification messages detected by the computer application, the severity level being modifiable by a user.

29. The tangible computer readable medium recited in claim 28, further comprising assigning a default value to the modifiable severity.

30. The tangible computer readable medium recited in claim 28, further comprising displaying the one or more notification messages and the modifiable severity in a table in a graphical user interface.

31. The tangible computer readable medium recited in claim 28, further comprising modifying the modifiable severity, wherein an export file comprises the modified modifiable severity.

32. The tangible computer readable medium recited in claim 28, further comprising modifying the modifiable location, wherein an export file comprises the modified modifiable location.

33. The tangible computer readable medium recited in claim 28, further comprising:

storing temporarily the notification messages in a data file in a third location; and

extracting the notification messages from the data file for display in a graphical user interface.