Enabling user control over automated provisioning environment

US7484242B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Vijay Kumar Aggarwal · Marlboro, US
• David Werner Bachmann · Leander, US
• Uzi Hardoon · Hollywood, US
• Craig Lawton · Raleigh, US
• Raymond Paul Pekowski · Austin, US
• Christopher Andrew Peters · Round Rock, US
• Puthukode G. Ramachandran · Austin, US
• Lorin Evan Ullmann · Austin, US
• John Patrick Whitfield · Cary, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 16, 2004
• Grant date: Jan 27, 2009
• Expiry date: Jun 27, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L41/0883
• WIPO field: Digital communication
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Enabling automated provisioning on a data processing network includes providing the network with access to an automated provisioning controller. The controller enables a user to specify resource allocation priorities and uses the user-specified priorities, in conjunction with a resource stabilization policy, to resolve conflicting resource requests. The resource allocation priorities include priorities for demand-based resource requests and maintenance-based resource requests. The stabilization policy includes a policy for constraining allocation of a resource based on forecasted demand and a policy for constraining allocation of a resource based on a scheduled maintenance task.