Patent ID: 8180883

Claim:
A system comprising: a network managing device to receive one or more event messages from at least one network device, wherein each event message includes a directive having embedded instructions to indicate a type of processing to be performed on the event messages and to direct the network managing device to process the event messages with the type of processing indicated in the directive, wherein the directive and corresponding embedded instructions are defined by the at least one network device based on an importance level associated with each event message relative to other event messages capable of being received by the network managing device, and wherein, when at least one of the directives indicates the corresponding event message includes critical information regarding the operation of the network device, the directive and corresponding embedded instructions are configured to direct the network managing device to expedite handling of the at least one event message by sending one or more control messages that reroute traffic through a network away from the network device corresponding to the critical information in the event message and configured to store a full version of the at least one event message for a predetermined time.