Patent ID: 7624177

Claim:
In a computer system, a method for processing syslog messages, said syslog messages being received from a plurality of components, comprising: receiving a first syslog message; determining by a syslog server of the computer system whether said first syslog message is one of a plurality of critical syslog messages; if said first syslog message is not any of said plurality of critical syslog messages, placing said first syslog message in a syslog queue by the syslog server, the syslog queue having one or more other syslog messages already stored in said syslog queue, said syslog queue processed on a first-in, first-out basis, such that said first syslog message is retrieved from said syslog queue and processed after said other syslog messages already stored in said syslog queue are retrieved from said syslog queue and processed; if said first syslog message is said one of said plurality of critical syslog messages, clearing said one or more other syslog messages from said syslog queue by said syslog server, and placing said first syslog message in said syslog queue by said syslog server after said one or more other syslog messages have been cleared from said syslog queue, such that said first syslog message is retrieved next from said syslog queue and processed, wherein said first syslog message is processed by a processor of the computer system in a same way regardless of whether said first syslog message is said one of said plurality of critical syslog messages after said first syslog message has been retrieved from said syslog queue by said processor.