International Business Machines Corporation

Kenneth Mark Hunsinger

Abdolreza Salahshour

Michael LaVerna Wamboldt

Patrick P Reynolds

A system to correlate and consolidate a plurality of events includes at least one adapter to correlate and consolidate every one of the plurality of events to form a multi-personality event. Each one of the plurality of events is emitted in response to an incident affecting an event producer. The system also includes a plurality of smart event adapters to correlate and consolidate each of the plurality of events to form the multi-personality event. The multi-personality event includes complete details contained in each event of the plurality of events serially appended to an initial multi-personality event formed by two of the plurality of events. Each remaining event is serially appended the initial multi-personality event.

Method and system to correlate and consolidate a plurality of events

A method to correlate and consolidate a plurality of events includes consolidating each of the plurality of events to form a multi-personality event. Each event may be emitted from a respective one of a plurality of components forming an event producer in response to an incident affecting the event producer. The method also includes providing the multi-personality event to an event consumer.

Methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business by automatically and dynamically annotating events in an event management system ('EMS') to adapt to capabilities of a management system of which the EMS is an integral part. Furthermore, the EMS may automatically and dynamically recycle existing events (including events which are already annotated) for processing with newly-defined or different EMS capabilities. Events may also be re-annotated to reflect new or different capabilities of the EMS. These benefits of 'smart events' are realized without requiring re-instrumentation of the event generation code of managed applications.

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