Patent 7409403 was granted and assigned to Red Hat on August, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and apparatus is described for the generation of an alert configuration file. According to one embodiment, configuration information is stored in a relational database which a configuration generator uses to generate a text configuration file. The configuration information being stored in the relational database allows for access control and data validation. At periodic intervals, the text configuration file is compiled to reinitialize an alerts serve with the updated configuration information.