Policy driven autonomic computing-specifying relationships

US7451201B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• John K. Alex · Valley Cottage, US
• Peter Richard Badovinatz · Kingston, US
• Reinhard T. Buendgen · Lörrach, DE
• Chun-Shi Chang · Poughkeepsie, US
• Gregory D. Laib · Kingston, US
• Rong-Sheng Lee · Staatsburg, US
• Jeffrey S. Lucash · Hurley, US
• Thomas Lumpp · Reutlingen, DE
• Juergen Schneider · Althengstett, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 30, 2003
• Grant date: Nov 11, 2008
• Expiry date: Jan 10, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L41/0661
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

An autonomic computing system and method determine policy definitions (404) and a set of available actions (410); monitor resources distributed within the system; determine if the system is at a desired end state; and modify resource states by sending instructions for the resources to perform available actions. The policy definitions (404) specify: start order between resources, prioritization between resources, conditional activation of policies, desired end state of resources, and location limitation of resources. The system and method receive status information from available resources, and monitor and modify the system until it reaches the desired end state. The policy definitions (404) can be determined by specifying a user-defined system end state and resource relationships. The policy definitions (404) can further harvest implicit relationships between resources, via self-discovery, and underlying relationships among resources.