Patent ID: 7152104

Claim:
Apparatus for notifying administrators of selected events generated by an event service in a distributed computer system having a plurality of host computers, comprising: a federated bean running in each host computer system, the federated bean including: an event monitor that monitors the event service to detect events generated by the event service, a category list of selected events, wherein the category list contains the same events in all of the federated beans; a configuration notifier that generates configuration change events and forwards the generated configuration change events to the event service when any changes are made to the category list; a configuration monitor that receives configuration change events from the event service and updates the category list in response thereto so that category lists in all of the federated beans contain the same events even though a change is made to a category list in only one bean; and a message generator that sends human-readable messages to the administrators when a detected event matches an event in the category list.