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Prioritized alert delivery in a distributed processing system

  • US 9,246,865 B2
  • Filed: 01/09/2013
  • Issued: 01/26/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of prioritized alert delivery in a distributed processing system, the method comprising:

  • receiving, by an incident analyzer, a plurality of events from a plurality of tiered event producing components in a distributed computing system;

    identifying, by the incident analyzer, a plurality of potential alerts in dependence upon the events;

    wherein each potential alert includes a priority and one or more condition events describing the event producing component creating the event;

    comparing, by the incident analyzer, the potential alerts and their condition events and priorities;

    identifying, by the incident analyzer, the highest priority potential alert having condition events whose event producing component is in a tier that is higher than the tier of condition events of one or more lower priority potential alerts; and

    creating, by the incident analyzer, an alert in dependence upon the identified highest priority potential alert and the condition events corresponding to the identified highest priority potential alert.

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