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.