11. The system of claim 9 , further comprising an output handler configured to present the state information in the information object in a variable format.
9. An operating platform administration data processing system configured for rules based fetching of operating platform state, the system comprising: an administration console coupled to a plurality of code interpreters and a data store of rules, rule handlers and output handlers, each of the rules specifying at least one of the rule handlers, each of the rule handlers being programmed to fetch state information for a designated operating platform communicatively coupled to the administration console, the console executing in memory of a computer system; and, a rules based status fetching module coupled to the administration console, the module comprising program code enabled upon execution in the memory of the computer system to load and parse a rule amongst the rules to identify a rule handler specified therein and one of the code interpreters requisite to interpreting the specified rule handler to fetch the state information, to direct an interpretation of the specified rule handler by the identified one of the code interpreters, and to encapsulate the state information once fetched in an information object.