This session will demonstrate how the product eventACTION provides an automated means of gathering, storing, accessing and distributing the information required to more effectively manage the operating system environment while not changing the way people work today. The presentation will highlight how accountability and audit ability of system software changes are quickly and easily achieved; how software changes can be more actively controlled to meet operating constraints; how software assets can be more easily managed through monitoring and controlling usage in support of licensing restrictions; how the product provides additional tools to increase the efficiency of both system programmers and change administrators in their day-to-day jobs; and finally, how little time is required to manage the product itself.