A system and method for distributing management events to external process is presented. A notification listener registers with a client notification service that resides locally with the notification listener. The registration includes one or more notification types in which the notification listener wishes to be notified. The client notification service configures a remote proxy located on a server to provide notification events to the client notification service that have one of the notification types. The remote proxy receives notification events from a server notification service, and provides the notification events to the client notification service. In turn, the client notification service provides the notification events to the notification listener. The remote proxy may be configured for push processing or pull processing. When the remote proxy is configured for push processing, the remote proxy sends notification events to the client notification service without receiving a request from the client notification service. When the remote proxy is configured for pull processing, the remote proxy waits for a request from the client notification service before sending the notification events to the client notification service.