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; and changing the event reporting rules for one or more components on the identified idle node in dependence upon the suppressed events and the logged data.