A drilling rig and a system for managing vibratory separators

A drilling rig having a vibratory separator for separating solids from solids laden drilling mud and a system for managing vibratory separators, wherein vibratory separator comprises monitoring and analyzing apparatus for monitoring and analyzing a plurality of signals from a plurality of sensors and for transmitting signals indicative of information related to operation of the vibratory separator to a processor on the drilling rig, the processor including a set of health check rules for health checks comprising logical rules, inputs and outputs for defining events associated with the status of the vibratory separator, the processor for determining a severity code for each event and for reporting the events and severity codes to a central server, the events reported by the processor to the central server in a protocol defining a data structure, the data structure comprising a hierarchical tree node structure wherein results from application of the health check rules are a bottommost node of the tree node structure, and displaying the event severity codes on a display.