Event consumers for an event management system

A computer system comprising:

• a processor;
• memory coupled to the processor;
• the processor coupled to processing components, wherein the processing components comprises:
• at least one event provider configured to generate events;
• an event consumer selected from a set of standard event consumers, including:
• an email consumer configured to send at least one email message;
• a paging consumer configured to send at least one 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 at least one message 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;
• 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;
• and
• a command line consumer configured to launch at least one process;
• an instance of an individual event consumer of the set of standard event consumers being operable to perform a first action responsive to a first event generated at a first individual event provider and to perfonn a second action responsive to a second event generated at a second different individual event provider;
• 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 is implemented with a windows management instrumentation;
• wherein the event includes a set of policies which are accessible by a windows management instrumentation module.

A system comprising:

• a processor;
• memory coupled to the processor;
• the processor coupled to processing components wherein the processing components comprises:
• a plurality of sources configured to generate events in a computing environment;
• and,
• a set of automatically generated standard event consumers operable to perform actions responsive to events that occur in the computing environment without requiring knowledge about the sources of the events, wherein an instance of an individual event consumer perform actions responsive to events occurring at more than one of the event providers;
• 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;
• an event log provides at least one of selecting, filtering, correlating, forwarding, storing, or delivering event data in an enterprise;
• 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 is implemented with a windows management instrumentation;
• wherein the event includes a set of policies which are accessible by a windows management instrumentation module.