Patent ID: 8533688

Claim:
A method for interfacing to a system monitor, comprising: prior to executing a computer application within a computing device: 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; extracting 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 to delete any duplicate notification messages detected in the scan; accepting a user modifiable severity level and a user modifiable second location into a table, wherein the modifiable second location specifies a path to a second location where the one or more notification messages is stored; accessing data in the table and provide an indicator of severity based upon the modifiable severity level upon discovering the one or more notification messages at the second location, wherein the user modifiable severity level is modifiable prior to execution of the computer application; and converting the data in the table to the format acceptable to the system monitor module.