Patent ID: 8069452

Claim:
A method for correlating event notifications comprising the steps of: a. receiving at a first peer agent of a management network a peer agent event notification from a second peer agent; b. determining if the received peer agent event notification matches any peer notification categories; c. identifying a local notification category associated with the received peer agent event notification; d. determining if the identified local notification category matches any stored event notification that the first peer agent previously sent to a manager; e. upon determining that the identified local notification category matches an event notification that the first peer agent previously sent to the manager, adding a correlation attribute to the received peer agent event notification; and sending the received peer agent event notification, including the correlation attribute, to the manager; and f. upon determining that the identified local notification category does not match an event notification that the first peer agent previously sent to the manager, storing the received peer agent event notification in a buffer; wherein the first and second peer agents report event notifications to the manager.