Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for rules based fetching of operating platform state. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for rules based fetching of operating platform state can be provided. The method can include loading a rule specifying a rule handler programmed to fetch state information for a designated operating platform and parsing the rule to identify the rule handler and a corresponding code interpreter for the rule requisite to interpreting the rule handler to fetch the state information. The method further can include directing an interpretation of the rule handler by the identified code interpreter for the rule to fetch the state information. Finally, the method can include encapsulating the state information once fetched in an information object.