The present invention relates to a system for managing operational facilities
that is of the type which utilizes predefined events to carry out managing operations
for the facilities. The system includes one or more servers adapted to receive
events from a client and forward the events to a clearinghouse via a communication
link. The system further includes one or more clients, each of which has a unique
login identity, adapted to selectively send events to the server via the communication
link. Also included is a clearinghouse connected to each of the server and each
of the client via the communication link for selectively storing data from each
server and each client in a database, and being adapted to selectively authorize
predetermined events by each client according to the login identity of each such
client, to selectively schedule predetermined events in response to data stored
in the database and to monitor the status of all events stored in the database.