US Patent:
20050080763, Apr 14, 2005
Inventors:
Benjamin Opatowski - Springfield NJ, US
International Classification:
G06F007/00
Abstract:
The invention teaches an integrated and dedicated log monitoring object development environment which teaches use of regular expressions, logical expressions, and the truth states of those regular expressions, and also allows self-testing of the objects as they are developed. The invention teaches that a five step process may be used to create log monitoring software objects. In a first step, identifier/regular expressions may be added to the object from a list or menu or manually entered. In a second step, a line pattern is established by ordering the identifiers. In a third step, logical expressions are constructed in accordance with a logical expression grammar; in a fourth step, an action item to invoke upon a “true” value is associated with the logical expression. In the fifth step, a file to be monitored is selected, along with file attributes such as offset position and EOF disposition.
