International Business Machines Corporation

Barbara J Vander Weele

Ching-Yun Chao

Ki Hong Park

Lewis Lo

John Yow-Chun Chang

Yuhsuke Kaneyasu

Leonardo A Uzcategui

Rohan Gandhi

Ankit Patel

Kin Ueng

Iqbal M Umair

Patrick L Davis

Hugh Edward Hockett

Ajay Arvind Apte

Scott Christopher Moonen

John Y Chang

Matthew D McClintock

A new management node associated with a new rack sends at least a public key of the new management node to a first management node associated with a first rack and a plurality of autonomous management nodes. The first management node sends the new management node an access token trusted by at least a portion of the plurality of autonomous management nodes and a set of public keys corresponding to at least a portion of the plurality of autonomous management nodes. The new management node can send its public key and the access token to at least a portion of the plurality of autonomous management nodes. In response, the new management node can establish a mutual trust relationship with at least a portion of the plurality of autonomous management nodes.

Sponsored trust relationship management between multiple racks

A construct having a plurality of distributed resources can include a portion of a second rack having a plurality of computing devices controlled by a second management node. The second management node can determine it contains insufficient construct data such as user data, group data, resource data, or authorization policy data to execute an operation associated with the construct. The second management node can synchronize at least a portion of construct data with a first management node. The first management node can be associated with the construct and a mutual trust relationship can exist between the first management node and the second management node. The first management node and the second management node can comprise autonomous management nodes capable of functioning independent of the network.

Construct data management between loosely coupled racks

A first management node of a first rack can be registered to a shared file storage system by establishing a mutual trust relationship between the first management node and the shared file storage system. The first management node can access a plurality of respective public keys and a plurality of respective certificates of authority that are stored in the shared file storage system and associated with a plurality of respective registered management nodes. The first management node can store a public key and a certificate of authority in the shared file storage system. The first management node can form mutual trust relationships with other registered management nodes. The first management node can validate authenticity of messages received from registered management nodes of the plurality of registered management nodes using a respective public key and a respective certificate of authority associated with a respective registered management node sending a message.

Trust relationship management amongst racks in a data center

A mechanism is provided for establishing a trust relationship between two products. A resource device receives a registration request from an application device to access a resource on the resource device by an application and users of the application on the application device. The resource device sends a registration response using a redirection uniform resource identifier (URI) provided with the registration request, where the registration response includes an authorization code and a symmetric key in response to authenticating the registration request. The resource device receives an access token request that includes the symmetric key, verifiable authentication data, and the redirection URI. The resource device sends an access token to the application device in response to validating the access token request, where the access token allows for access to the resource on the resource device thereby establishing the trust relationship between the resource device and the application device.

Establishing a trust relationship between two product systems

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Barbara J Vander Weele