VMware, Inc.
Methods and systems to compound alerts in a distributed computing system

Abstract:

Computational methods and systems described herein are directed to compounding alerts generated in a distributed computing system. A user or system administrator may define a set of multistage process rules that can be used by a log management server application to examine log messages generated by event sources of a multistage process for alerts. A log-message database is searched to identify a log-message file used to record log messages generated by the event sources. A single compound alert indicating that the multistage process rules are satisfied is generated, when log messages of the log-message file that satisfy the rules of the multistage process rules have been identified. Methods may also execute remedial action to correct the multistate process when log messages of the log-message file fail to satisfy at least one rule of the multistage process rules.