Alert Management

An apparatus for alert management, the apparatus comprising a computer processor, a computer memory operatively coupled to the computer processor, the computer memory having disposed within it computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of:

• receiving, by a monitoring module from one or more disparate monitored sources, an alert, wherein the alert comprises a data structure that includes a plurality of fields;
• storing, by the monitoring module, the alert in a database;
• processing, by the monitoring module periodically at predefined intervals, the database, including identifying, in dependence upon a predefined ruleset, one or more alerts;
• storing, by the monitoring module, the identified alerts in a staging table, including creating, for each of the identified alerts, a primary key independence upon the fields of the identified alert;
• populating, by the monitoring module for each of the alerts stored in the staging table, one or more attribute fields of the alert in dependence upon the created primary key of the alert;
• and
• storing, by the monitoring module, the populated alerts in the database.

A computer program product for alert management, the computer program product disposed upon a computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising computer program instructions that, when executed, cause a computer to carry out the steps of:

• receiving, by a monitoring module from one or more disparate monitored sources, an alert, wherein the alert comprises a data structure that includes a plurality of fields;
• storing, by the monitoring module, the alert in a database;
• processing, by the monitoring module periodically at predefined intervals, the database, including identifying, in dependence upon a predefined ruleset, one or more alerts;
• storing, by the monitoring module, the identified alerts in a staging table, including creating, for each of the identified alerts, a primary key independence upon the fields of the identified alert;
• populating, by the monitoring module for each of the alerts stored in the staging table, one or more attribute fields of the alert in dependence upon the created primary key of the alert;
• and
• storing, by the monitoring module, the populated alerts in the database.