The invention discloses an information processing apparatus and an information processing method. The information processing apparatus remotely managed by a management apparatus includes an event reception unit configured to receive an event that occurs inside; a plurality of event processing units configured to generate a message to be transmitted to the management apparatus, the event processing units corresponding to events, respectively; and a processing distribution unit configured to determine distribution of the event received by the event reception unit to the corresponding event processing unit. The event processing units are generated by the processing distribution unit.