Patent ID: 8296104

Claim:
A method for determining a diagnostic action in a monitored system, comprising: detecting, by a computer system, a condition in the monitored system; determining, by the computer system, context data for the detected condition; determining, by the computer system, a diagnostic action to be performed responsive to the detected condition based upon the context data determined, wherein determining the diagnostic action to be performed comprises: determining, by the computer system, a set of one or more rules configured for the monitored system, each rule specifying a condition and one or more actions to be performed when the condition specified in the rule is satisfied, and determining, by the computer system, that the condition associated with a first rule from the set of rules is satisfied by the context data determined, wherein at least one action specified by the first rule is the diagnostic action determined to be performed in the monitored system; and modifying the behavior of the one or more rules dynamically by enabling one or more pre-existing actions in response to detecting the condition in the monitored system.