Patent ID: 8887176

Claim:
A method, comprising: intercepting a system event from a monitored network; storing an event record corresponding to the system event at a first database server; correlating the event record to a plurality of communication channels, each communication channel corresponding to a client of a plurality of clients, based upon a plurality of defined interests, each of the plurality of defined interests corresponding to one of the plurality of communication channels; transmitting an event notification corresponding to the event record to a second database server, wherein the event notification comprises notification of the event record stored on the first database server; and, in response to a determination that the system event is a high priority event, transmitting the event notification to the plurality clients, bypassing the second database server via the plurality of communication channels; wherein the intercepting comprising: identifying, by a probe, the system event; and assigning a priority to the system event based upon a rules file associated with the probe.