Patent ID: 8495661

Claim:
A method of relevant alert delivery with event and alert suppression in a distributed processing system, the method comprising: receiving in an event queue a plurality of events from one or more components of the distributed processing system, wherein each event indicates at least one of an error and status associated with a component; assigning by an event analyzer each received event to an events pool, wherein the event analyzer is automated computing machinery configured to analyze events; wherein the event analyzer includes event analysis rules including, event arrival rules, events pool operation rules, event suppression rules, and events pool closure rules; identifying by the event analyzer in dependence upon the event arrival rules and the events assigned to the events pool one or more alerts; closing, by the event analyzer in dependence upon the events pool operation rules, the events pool; determining, by the events analyzer in dependence upon the event suppression rules, whether to suppress one or more events in the closed events pool; identifying by the event analyzer in dependence upon the events pool closure rules and any unsuppressed events assigned to the events pool, one or more additional alerts; sending by the event analyzer to an alert analyzer all the alerts identified by the event analyzer; assigning by the alert analyzer the identified alerts to an alerts pool; determining by the alert analyzer in dependence upon alert analysis rules and the alerts in the alert pool whether to suppress any alerts; transmitting the unsuppressed alerts to one or more components of the distributed processing system; and wherein the events pool has a predetermined initial period of time and assigning by the event analyzer each received event to an events pool further comprises extending for each event assigned to the events pool the predetermined initial period of time by a particular period of time assigned to the event.