1. A method of administering event reporting rules in a distributed processing system, the method comprising: identifying that one or more nodes of the distributed processing system is idle; for each identified idle node, collecting by the idle node any suppressed events and logged data from the node; and sending the suppressed events and logged data to a database of events; determining whether to change the event reporting rules for one or more components of the identified idle node, including comparing the suppressed events and logged data with component reporting change rules identifying the conditions under which an event analyzer will instruct one or more components of the distributed processing system to locally change its event reporting rules; and responsive to determining to change the event reporting rules for one or more components of the identified idle node, changing the event reporting rules for one or more components on the identified idle node including discontinuing to suppress one or more events of one or more event types.