Patent ID: 7412501

Claim:
An event management system comprising: a processor; memory coupled to the processor; the processor coupled to processing components, wherein the processing components comprises: a set of event consumers, each event consumer being configured to perform an action in response to an occurrence of an event, the set of event consumers including: an email consumer configured to handle email messages; a paging consumer configured to generate a page message; an active scripting consumer configured to execute at least one script; a log file consumer configured to record information in a log file; an event log consumer configured to log messages to an event log, wherein the event log provides at least one of selecting, filtering, correlating, forwarding, storing, or delivering event data in an enterprise; and a command line consumer configured to launch at least one process; wherein individual event consumers are configured to accept and to use event data from an event source without requiring knowledge about a source of the event; wherein individual event consumers are configured to perform the action without requiring knowledge about a source of the event; at least one event filter class that represents event filtering parameters; and at least one binding class that represents an association of at least one event consumer and at least one event filter; wherein the event management system is implemented with a windows management instrumentation; wherein the event management system includes a set of policies which are accessible by a windows management instrumentation module.