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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 04, 1998
Colin Scott Dawson, Tucson, AZ (US);
Michael Allen Kaczmarski, Tucson, AZ (US);
Bonnie Jean Vining, Tucson, AZ (US);
Robert Guy Vining, Tucson, AZ (US);
Donald Paul Warren, Jr., Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a server having a plurality of clients coupled to the server at client nodes, and coupled to a plurality of receivers. Events, which may range from a successful completion message to a major error alert, may be generated relating to the server or to the client nodes. A method is disclosed for dynamically selectively distributing the events to particular ones of the receivers, in response to a selective enabling/disabling of the events to each receiver. The method with respect to client nodes comprises: upon opening a session of a client node, the selectively enabled events/receivers relating to the client node are determined. Upon the selective enabling/disabling occurring during the session of the client node, the determined selectively enabled events/receivers relating to the client node are dynamically updated. Then, upon occurrence of an event relating to a client node, the event is distributed to ones of the receivers having been selectively enabled for the event in the determining and the dynamically updating steps. Additionally, classes of events or wild card groups of client nodes may be enabled.