Patent ID: 7992155

Claim:
A system to correlate and consolidate a plurality of events, comprising: a memory; at least one adapter, stored in the memory, to correlate and consolidate every one of the plurality of events to form a multi-personality event, wherein each one of the plurality of events is emitted in response to an incident affecting an event producer, each one of the plurality of events being emitted from a respective one of a plurality of components which form the event producer, the multi-personality event being formed in the at least one adapter that is distinct from the event producer; and a plurality of smart event adapters, stored in the memory, to correlate and consolidate every one of the plurality of events to form the multi-personality event, wherein the multi-personality event includes details contained in each event of the plurality of events serially appended to an initial multi-personality event, wherein the plurality of smart event adapters comprises: a first smart event adapter to consolidate two events of the plurality of events to form the initial multi-personality event; and at least one other smart event adapter being associated with each remaining, unconsolidated event of the plurality of events to consolidate the associated event with the previously formed initial multi-personality event containing previously consolidated events, and wherein the multi-personality event further comprises a reference appended to each event in the multi-personality event for accessing each of the events when doing a detailed diagnosis of the incident.