Intelligent automated forensic agent

A system for collecting targeted information on a processing system in response to determination of an error on the processing system to facilitate root cause analysis of the error, comprising:

• one or more processors and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more processors, to cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
• monitoring the processing system for occurrence of errors, by an error monitoring system;
• providing the errors by the error monitoring system to a forensic agent that includes a forensic analysis system;
• analyzing the errors, combinations of error codes, and frequencies of the occurrence of errors, by the forensic analysis system, against known error patterns to identify occurrence of a significant error in the processing system;
• in response to determining occurrence of the significant error, implementing a lookup process, by the forensic analysis system, in a command script database to determine if the command script database contains an entry corresponding to the determined significant error;
• in response to a determination that the command script database contains an entry corresponding to the determined significant error, reading the entry by the forensic analysis system to retrieve a set of information collection commands to be executed in response to occurrence of the error;
• automatically executing the retrieved set of information collection commands of the entry by the forensic analysis system to collect targeted information from the processing system in response to the determination of the significant error on the processing system, the targeted information being identified in parameters associated with the information collection commands;
• persisting the collected targeted information by the forensic analysis system in storage;
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• enabling access to the persisted information in connection with root cause analysis of the determined significant error.