1. A computer implemented method for managing entities in a computer system, comprising: relating the managed entities and sub-entities each with a node into a hierarchical tree structure defined in a common information model with a tree root and child associations; traversing the tree structure until the tree root and all of the child associations are encountered; and determining an origination of each managed entity based on the associations encountered for at least one of adding, deleting or revising information associated with the node for dynamically propagating a status of the managed entities of the hierarchical tree structure.