Patent ID: 7299472

Claim:
A system for dynamically controlling notification behavior, comprising: a network; a monitoring system further comprising: a monitoring system computer processor; a monitoring system network interface device electrically connected to the monitoring system computer processor to communicate data to the network; a monitoring system computer readable memory containing a notification program executable by the monitoring system computer processor to: load a set of configuration parameters; determine if a first notification should be sent based on said set of configuration parameters and a system state of one or more components being monitored by said monitoring system; if the first notification should be sent, communicate said first notification over said network; receive an update to at least one configuration parameter of the set of configuration parameters during execution; and send out at an additional notification based on the update to the at least one configuration parameter, resulting in a change in the notification behavior of the monitoring system during execution thereof; and a management system further comprising: a management system computer processor; a management system network interface device electrically connected to the management system computer processor to communicate data to the network; a management system computer readable memory containing a management program executable by the management system computer processor to: receive the first notification from the monitoring system over the network; and communicate one or more new or updated configuration parameters to the monitoring system for automatically dynamically updating the notification behavior of the monitoring system over the network.