Patent ID: 8656212

Claim:
A method of a network management system, the method comprising: receiving, over a network from network entities, and storing, on a data storage device, messages each identifying a source network entity and including data representative of a violation or error on the respective source network entity; tracking administrator actions taken in response to each received message and storing a representation of the responsive actions in association with a respective violation or error, the stored representation of a responsive action taken with regard to at least one received message including an action to ignore the particular violations or errors identified therein; executing an instruction set on a computer processor with regard to subsequently received messages to identify the particular violations or errors that have occurred on a particular network entity; for each subsequently received message including one of the particular violations or errors, determining whether the particular network entity from which a respective message was received is configurable; when the particular network entity is configurable, automatically generating and sending, in response to identifying the particular violations or errors in a received message, a configuration message to the particular network entity, the configuration message executable on a processor of the particular network entity to modify how the particular violation or error is processed by the at least one particular network entity to be in accordance with the action taken in response to the particular violation or error; and when the particular network entity is not configurable and the action taken in response to the particular violation or error is to ignore the particular violation or error, automatically modifying a configuration of the network management system to ignore subsequently received messages including data representative of the particular violation or error.