Claims
- 1. A method for notifying a user that an event has occurred on a computer network system, the event representing a change in the status for a device connected to the computer network and defined by a set of event conditions, the notification occurring when the event conditions satisfy a set of predetermined conditions, the method comprising:
requesting creation of a notification rule; receiving a set of values based on a specified state of the device; prepopulating a notification rule based on the set of values; selecting a notification action to be taken upon satisfying the notification rule.
- 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the requesting step is performed in response to a trigger event.
- 3. The method of claim 2, wherein the trigger event is an event representing a change of state of the device.
- 4. The method of claim 1, the step of automatically prepopulating comprising the steps of:
presenting a notification rule creation dialog; and prepopulating event conditions in the notification creation dialog.
- 5. The method of claim 1, the step of selecting a notification action comprising the step of:
presenting a list of predefined notification actions; and selecting one of the predefined notification actions..
- 6. The method of claim 5 the step of selecting a notification action comprising the step of:
creating a new notification action.
- 7. The method of claim 1, wherein the prepopulated values can be modified manually.
- 8. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:
notifying the user when the condition of the notification rule is satisfied according to the notification action specified.
- 9. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of notifying further comprises the step of:
testing the notification action in a test mode by simulating satisfaction of the conditions of the notification rule.
- 10. The method of claim 9, wherein simulating satisfaction of the conditions of the notification rule occurs without triggering the conditions of the notification rule
- 11. A computer network system for notifying a user that an event has occurred on the computer network system, said computer network system having one or more system resources, comprising:
a computer network; a plurality of devices coupled to the computer network; a monitoring device for monitoring a specified state of the devices, the specified state of a selected device defined by a series of conditions for the selected device; a host computer coupled to the computer network; a program storage device coupled to the host processor having a computer readable code embodied therein for notifying a user of a change in the status for a device coupled the computer network, the code for directing the computer to perform the steps of:
requesting creation of a notification rule; receiving a set of values based on a specified state of the device; creating a notification rule having values for defining when notification will occur; prepopulating the notification rule with the received set of values; and selecting a notification action to be taken upon satisfying the notification rule.
- 12. The computer network of claim 11, wherein the requesting step is responsive to an alarm for the device.
- 13. The computer network of claim 11, wherein the specified state of the device is the present state of the device.
- 14. The computer network of claim 11, wherein the specified state of the device is a prior state of the device.
- 15. The computer network system of claim 11, wherein the step of prepopulating is performed automatically.
- 16. The computer network system of claim 11, the step of prepopulating comprising the steps of:
presenting a dialog of selectable notification conditions; prepopulating dialog fields with the received set of values; and allowing a user to rewrite the prepopulated fields.
- 17. The computer network system of claim 11, further comprising the step of:
testing the notification action in a test mode by simulating satisfaction of the conditions of the notification rule.
- 18. The computer network system of claim 17, wherein simulating satisfaction of the conditions of the notification rule occurs without triggering the condition of the notification rule.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application is a continuation of co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/231,251, filed Jan. 15, 1999, which is incorporated herein in its entirety by reference.
Continuations (1)
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09231251 |
Jan 1999 |
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10315749 |
Dec 2002 |
US |