1. A computer system comprising: a logical processor; a memory in operable communication with the logical processor; an SHCMK distillation document residing in the memory and having SHCMK monitoring elements declared in a high-level computer language, the SHCMK monitoring elements providing at least one platform-nonspecific pattern for monitoring at least one of: computational health, computational configuration; a target identifier residing in the memory and specifying at least one target platform to be monitored; and an SHCMK compiler residing in the memory and having code which upon execution will compile the SHCMK distillation document and the target identifier as a collective input, and which will produce as an output a target-specific SHCMK rule pack that is specifically arranged to monitor computational health and/or computational configuration of the target platform.