Patent ID: 7617190

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of communicating management related data provided by a management system to a user, the computer-implemented method comprising: cataloging pieces of management related data indicative of activity of at least one of a plurality of network devices that the management system is monitoring over a network, each piece of management related data including properties and is stored in a database of the management system; defining data feed records specifying information that the user desires from the stored management related data, each data feed record is stored in the database of the management system and includes a data type and criteria, wherein the data type corresponds to a type of management related data that the user desires and the criteria corresponds with at least one of the properties of the type of management related data the user desires; querying the database of the management system for select pieces of management related data using one of the data feed records; sending the select pieces of management related data found in the query to a publisher, the publisher configured to generate a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) data feed item for each select piece of management related data obtained in the query and send each RSS data feed item to a user device under control of the user for rendering the RSS data feed items on a display of the user device.