METHOD, SYSTEM AND AGENT FOR CONNECTING EVENT CONSUMERS TO EVENT PRODUCERS IN A DISTRIBUTED EVENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

摘要

A method, system, and agent for dynamically connecting event producers to event consumers, when the type of event notifications requested by event consumer(s) matches the type of event notification issued by event producer(s). The agent receives advertisement or subscription request from event producers and consumers, and detects a match between the type of event notifications created by event producers and requested by event consumers. At that time, the agent dynamically connects the egress port of the event producer to the ingress port of the event consumer. When another subscription request is received by the agent from another event consumer for the same type of event notifications, the agent detects the optimal node for duplicating the event notifications before sending them to both event consumers. The agent comprises a processor, an event producer table, and an event consumer table storing the event notifications type of each node.