Patent ID: 8271957

Claim:
A system for generating an integrated trace output file, the system comprising: a client comprising a client agent, including: a client detection module configured to detect a first event having a first severity level at the client; a client generation module configured to generate a client-side trace output in response to the detection of the first event at the client; and a client communication module configured to transmit the client-side trace output; a server comprising: a server processing unit; a server agent designed to be executed by the server processing unit, including: a server detection module configured to detect a second event having a second severity level at the server; a server generation module configured to generate a server-side trace output in response to the detection of the second event at the server; a server communication module configured to receive the client-side trace output from the client; and a server integration module configured to generate the integrated trace output file by integrating the client-side trace output with the server-side trace output, the integrated trace output file having the client-side trace output appended to the server-side trace output, wherein the server is configured to allow a user to set severity levels indicating the integrated trace output file comprises at least one message among an error message, a warning message, an information message, and a debug message.