Patent ID: 8219663

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving, by a server computing system outside a firewall of a private network, monitoring data on performance characteristics of a plurality of hosts on the private network and inside the firewall from a network monitoring system of the private network, the monitoring data comprising one or more external parameters of the plurality of hosts available by accessing one or more ports of the plurality of hosts and one or more internal parameters of the plurality of hosts available by logging into the plurality of hosts; detecting, by the server computing system, an occurrence of a predetermined event on a host of the plurality of hosts based on the monitoring data, the predetermined event including at least one of an internal event associated with the one or more internal parameters or an external event associated with the one or more external parameters, wherein the predetermined event is associated with a standard notification rule; when an advanced notification rule associated with the standard notification rule is enabled, and upon occurrence of the predetermined event, performing the following: preventing the generation of a first notification associated with the standard notification rule; generating a second notification based on the advanced notification rule; and sending the second notification.