Patent ID: 8145939
Filing Date: 2012-03-27
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, over a network from network entities, and storing, on a data storage device, messages each identifying a source network entity and including data representative of a violation or error on the respective source network entity; tracking responsive actions taken in response to each received message and storing a representation of the responsive actions in association with a respective violation or error; executing an instruction set on a computer processor to generate a report of messages received from the network entities, the report of messages including a count of violations or errors represented in the messages received from the network entities where the only responsive action taken in response to particular violations or errors has been to ignore the particular violations or errors; providing a configuration message generation user interface to receive input for generation of at least one configuration message to modify how a particular network entity violation or error is processed; and generating and sending, in response to input received into the configuration message generation user interface, a configuration message to at least one target, the configuration message executable on a processor of the target to modify how a particular violation or error is processed by the at least one target.