Patent ID: 7457869

Claim:
A monitoring management system comprising: a plurality of devices, each device providing monitoring data associated with monitoring of a corresponding resource, the monitoring data for each particular device represented in a data format specific to that device; a gateway server having a plurality of device ports, each device port connected to a corresponding device for receiving the monitoring data, a processor for processing the received data into a common format from the device-specific formats, wherein the common format defines a data record structure that includes a device identifier field for identifying the specific device and a native data field for carrying the monitoring data, and a communication port for communicating the processed data; a host connected to the gateway server communication port having a receiver for receiving the communicated data, a parser for parsing the received data, an auditor for auditing the parsed data; wherein the host further includes one or more exception tables that define rules for testing for out of limit conditions associated with monitored resources and wherein the auditor provides auditing by evaluating the parsed data based on one or more rules defined by one or more entries of the exception tables to provide one or more exception reports based on an outcome of the audit.