Patent ID: 8914481

Claim:
A machine-implemented method, comprising: regularly receiving broadcast messages from managed services of an enterprise over a network; indexing the broadcast messages in a repository; without changing the broadcast messages and each broadcast message indicating the standards to which it adheres and indicating what each managed service associated with a particular broadcast message is doing and what it is, what the each managed service is doing is indicated by what is loaded and processing on a particular device for that managed service; and subsequently permitting additional information obtained for each managed service to be viewed as a blog, the additional information is related to each managed service and the additional information for selectively identifying particular ones of the managed service that form a managed group of services that a management tool dynamically manages as a logical entity, the managed services are one or more of: services, servers, proxies, and storage devices, and the additional information obtained by periodic searches of a repository that is a self-organizing server, the periodic searches dynamically alters membership in the managed group by adding new managed service and removing existing managed services permitting the membership to chaotically change based on dynamic conditions that change with each of the managed services and the membership is automatically updated when the dynamic conditions are evaluated and warrant addition or removal from the membership, each service dynamically self-populates itself to the particular groups and each of the service dynamically self adds and removes itself from the particular groups as circumstances warrant based on the evaluation of the conditions.