9. An article of manufacture comprising a program storage medium having computer readable code embodied therein, said computer readable code being configured to validate a syslog message having a plurality of message components comprising: computer readable code for retrieving a meta regular expression from memory, said meta regular expression being formed from a set of regular expressions with each of said regular expressions corresponding to one of said plurality of message components, said meta-regular expression representing a plurality of message component patterns, each of said message component patterns representing a different relative positioning of individual regular expressions of said set of regular expressions; computer readable code for comparing a relative positioning of the plurality of message components in said syslog message with said meta regular expression, said syslog message being deemed valid if the relative positioning of the plurality of message components of said syslog message matches one of said plurality of message component patterns represented by said meta regular expression.
14. The article of manufacture of claim 9 wherein said meta regular expression is formed using a cross-platform language.