US Patent 9122546 Rapid processing of event notifications

An improved technique of identifying particular events for alerting within an ENMS involves tagging each incoming event notification as having high priority or normal priority according to a set of rules. Those event notifications tagged as having a normal priority are sent directly to a reporting database, while those tagged as having a high priority are sent directly to an alert evaluation module which is configured to generate an alert as a result of an alert evaluation operation performed on an event notification. In order to comply with reporting requirements, however, the improved technique further involves generating a copy of the event notifications tagged as high priority and sending the copies to the reporting database.