Patent ID: 8112512

Claim:
A method comprising sending a simple network management protocol (SNMP) notification in response to an event, the notification including a pre-defined varbind list, wherein each varbind in the pre-defined varbind list comprises a variable corresponding to a managed object instance and a value of the variable and provides information on the event associated with the SNMP notification; receiving, in response to the SNMP notification, a request to add one or more additional varbinds to the pre-defined varbind list of the notification, wherein the request provides an object identifier of the SNMP notification, one or more object identifiers of the one or more additional varbinds, and an Internet protocol (IP) address of a computer that generated the request; storing the object identifiers of the one or more additional varbinds and the IP address of the computer that generated the request with the object identifier of the SNMP notification, retrieving, in response to the next occurrence of the event and using the one or more object identifiers of the one or more additional varbinds stored with the object identifier of the SNMP notification, the one or more additional varbinds; configuring the one or more additional varbinds at run time, by mapping the one or more additional varbinds to the object identifier of the SNMP notification based on a specified requirement of one or more customers receiving the pre-defined varbind list; and sending a new SNMP notification to the IP address stored with the object identifier of the SNMP notification, the new SNMP notification being configured separately for each customer with the one or more additional varbinds configured in the pre-defined varbind list based on the specified requirement of the one or more customers.