This is one of main challenges we are facing today. Simple things like restarting servers require a lot of polling. If we can get away from it, the user experience and consistency of the client applications will greatly improve.

On Feb 14, 2013, at 11:42 PM, Brian Stansberry <brian.stansberry@redhat.com> wrote:

2) Support for remote notifications is important. Perhaps more value in
this than in a generic internal mechanism. The notification mechanism
becomes an standard means via which changes internal to the server (or
group of servers) can be communicated to management tools.