Patent ID: 7890622

Claim:
A method for providing real-time notification of an event which has occurred in a computer-related device, comprising: registering a system management application (SMA) with a common information model (CIM) agent associated with the device whereby the CIM agent stores the identity of the SMA, the CIM agent including an HTTP server; storing in a buffer a record of a predetermined event occurring in a computer-related device; obtaining in the CIM agent the identity of the SMA; transmitting an event notification from the CIM agent to the SMA; transmitting a message from the SMA to the CIM agent requesting the record of the event from the updated buffer; receiving in the SMA the record of the event from the updated buffer; receiving one of a series of regular requests from an open browser window on a user computer for any record of the event stored in the buffer; and in response to the request, transmitting the record of the event to an HTML event element in a page of the browser window whereby the record of the event is inserted into the HTML element and displayed in the browser window.