Patent ID: 7203930

Claim:
A method for interfacing to a system monitor, said method comprising the steps of: (a) scanning source code of at least one source file of a computer application to be monitored for one or more error notification messages that are contained within the source code of the at least one source file, the source file being stored in a first location; (b) extracting the error notification message from the source file; (c) displaying the error notification message in a graphical user interface; (d) displaying in the graphical user interface simultaneously with the error notification message, a modifiable severity and a modifiable second location corresponding to the error notification message whereby the modifiable second location comprises a path to a log file location where the error notification messages are stored in a file system directory when output by the computer application upon the computer application experiencing an error that causes the computer application to output to the log file location an error notification message of the source file corresponding to the experienced error; (e) generating an export file in a format compatible with the system monitor, the export file comprising the modifiable severity and the modifiable second location; and (f) accessing the export file by the system monitor to determine where the log file location is by reading the modifiable second location, monitoring by the system monitor the log file location as specified by the modifiable second location, and providing by the system monitor an indicator of the severity based on the modifiable severity of the export file for the error notification discovered from the log file location.