19. A network system capable of logging and enabling the ordered retrieval of events in a managed environment, comprising: a) a central broker which monitors the managed environment for one or more events and receives the one or more events; and b) an event store, having a plurality of non-textual files organized into a plurality of sets with each set of the plurality of sets containing corresponding event log and event index files, to which each event of the one or more events is logged as received by the central broker in the order received, wherein an event log file of the event store contains a complete representation of the one or more events received from the central broker in a language-independent form that enables formatting of the one or more events into a local language and further contains an event index file containing the location of the one or more events in the event log file.
19. A network system capable of logging and enabling the ordered retrieval of events in a managed environment, comprising: a) a central broker which monitors the managed environment for one or more events and receives the one or more events; and b) an event store, having a plurality of non-textual files organized into a plurality of sets with each set of the plurality of sets containing corresponding event log and event index files, to which each event of the one or more events is logged as received by the central broker in the order received, wherein an event log file of the event store contains a complete representation of the one or more events received from the central broker in a language-independent form that enables formatting of the one or more events into a local language and further contains an event index file containing the location of the one or more events in the event log file. 22. The system of claim 19, wherein the event store further comprises a correlation log file containing one or more correlation relationships between one or more pairs of events in the event log file.