Dedicated federated beans monitor an event service in a data services
management system and sends human-readable messages to people involved in
the administration of management services in order to inform the
administrators that an event they are interested in has occurred. In one
embodiment, the beans each contain a category list indicating which
events are of interest to the administrators and the beans cooperate with
each other to insure that the category lists in the beans are
synchronized. In another embodiment, the federated bean composes and
forwards e-mail messages to administrators. In still another embodiment,
the federated bean also monitors and reports messages posted to a logging
service.