Patent ID: 7434208

Claim:
A method for interfacing to a system monitor comprising: prior to executing a computer application within a computing device, (a) scanning a source file of the computer application resident in a storage device to be monitored for one or more notification messages that are contained within source code of the source file, the source file being stored in a first location; (b) extracting the one or more notification messages from the source code of the source file; (c) storing the one or more notification messages in a second location; (d) after storing the one or more notification messages in the second location, deleting any duplicate notification messages detected among the one or more notification messages extracted from the source code of the source file; (e) displaying the one or more notification messages in a graphical user interface rendered on a display device; (f) after displaying the one or more notification messages in the graphical user interface, associating and displaying a severity level corresponding to each of the one or more notification messages detected by the computer application, the severity level being modifiable by a user; (g) displaying in the graphical user interface a modifiable location data field that specifies a path to a storage location in a file system where actual notification messages that are generated by the computer application are stored when generated by the computer application; (h) generating an export file in a format compatible with the system monitor, the export file comprising the modifiable severity and the modifiable location; and (i) accessing the export file by the system monitor to find the one or more notification messages and to provide an indicator of the severity based on the modifiable severity level for the one or more notification messages discovered at the path specified by the modifiable location.