Patent ID: 7421492

Claim:
A method for operating one or more computer systems via an operations-computing arrangement, comprising: coupling a first workstation to a first operations server and a second workstation to a second operations server, wherein the first operations server is coupled to the second operations server and to a first computer system and the second operations server is coupled to a second computer system, and each operations server provides an interface to the coupled computer system; executing on each of a the first and second workstations, a respective user interface for operating a respective one of the first and second computer systems via the respective interfaces on the first and second operations servers; registering the first operations server with the second operations server for the second operations server to forward event reports from the second operations server to the first operations server; generating an event report in response to computer system events of the second computer system detected by the second operations server; transmitting the event report from the second operations server to the second workstation coupled to the second operations server; transmitting the event report from the second operations server to the first operations server; transmitting the event report from the first operations server to the user interface on the first workstation; and wherein the user interface on each workstation displays data related to the event report and receives input of controls for operation of the respective computer system.