Apparatus and method for analysis driven issue report generation

A system for generating information descriptive of issues arising in a monitored set of nodes comprising:

• at least one analyzer program having provision to accept node-specific information, analyze the information for the presence of issues, and generate issue identification information when an issue is detected;
• a harness that exercises one or more analyzer programs against node-specific information gathered from one or more nodes, presenting each analyzer program with at least some data from one of the nodes each time the program is exercised, and collecting any issue identification information generated by the programs, said harness augmenting the issue identification information generated with information identifying the node from which the node-specific information was obtained;
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• an issues database containing the collected and augmented information for all the issues detected during such an exercising of the analyzer programs against node-specific information.

A system for generating information descriptive of issues arising in a monitored set of nodes comprising:

• at least one analyzer means for accepting node-specific information, analyzing the information for the presence of issues, and generating issue identification information when an issue is detected;
• harness means for exercising one or more analyzer means against node-specific information gathered from one or more nodes, presenting each analyzer means with at least some data from one of the nodes each time the analyzer means is exercised, and collecting any issue identification information generated by the analyzer means, said harness means also including means for augmenting the issue identification information generated with information identifying the node from which the node-specific information was obtained;
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• an issues database containing the collected and augmented information for all the issues detected during such an exercising of the analyzer means against node-specific information.