Patent ID: 7313728

Claim:
A system for logging diagnostic result messages and providing access to the diagnostic result messages, comprising: one or more diagnostic client modules capable of performing diagnostic tests on one or more managed elements of a computer system, of generating one or more diagnostic result messages during the performance of the diagnostic test, and of transmitting the one or more diagnostic result messages to a diagnostic event service module; a diagnostic event service module operative to receive the one or more diagnostic result messages from the diagnostic client modules and to provide the diagnostic result messages to one or more diagnostic subscriber modules; one or more diagnostic subscriber modules operative to communicate with the diagnostic event service module, to receive the diagnostic result messages from the diagnostic event service module, and to store the diagnostic result messages in a diagnostic results database; and a log viewer module operative to provide a user interface for receiving a request identifying at least one of the diagnostic result messages to be retrieved from the diagnostic results database, the user interface including one or more input areas for receiving a selection of at least one of the one or more managed elements of the computer system for which the diagnostic result messages are to be retrieved from the diagnostic results database and including one or more input areas for receiving a selection of an application source from which a diagnostic test associated with the diagnostic result messages to be retrieved from the diagnostic results database was originally executed.