Patent ID: 8239880

Claim:
A method for use in a computer system comprising an event generating component that monitors activity in the computer system and generates one or more events in response to activity in the computer system and a plurality of event handling components that each apply at least one business process rule to determine at least one aspect of how the computer system should respond to an event, the method comprising: providing an interface for the event generating component that enables an administrator to configure, for a first event that handled by two or more of the plurality of event handling components, an order in which the first event is to be handled by the two or more of the plurality of event handling components, wherein a first of the two or more of the plurality of event handling components notified regarding an occurrence of the first event performs content and quota management for data storage on a storage system and the event generating component includes a file system having data stored on the storage system, and wherein the method further includes: upon an occurrence of the first event, notifying the two or more of the plurality of event handling components, wherein the first event handling component performs first processing in according with a content policy specifying permitted operations with respect to particular content for certain users and a quota policy specifying storage space quotas not to be exceeded to determine whether to permit or deny a requested operation of the first event; wherein configuring an order in which the first event is handled comprises configuring an order in which a notification of the event will be provided to each of the two or more of the plurality of event handlers.