International Business Machines Corporation

Carrie Weaver Searcey

David Louis Kaminsky

Hong J Zhang

Christopher Johan Schaubach

Eric Kirchstein

Christina M Cruz

Theodore Patrick Lyons, Jr

A method to distribute policies may include transmitting one of an identification (ID) assigned to a policy template or the policy template associated with each policy to an enforcement point or selected enforcement points for enforcement. The method may also include transmitting one set of parameters to be used in each policy template to the enforcement point.

Method and system to distribute policies

A system and method for visually rendering resource policy usage information are provided. The system and method make use of policy performance data and relative weighting values of policies to generate, for each system resource, a graphical representation of the system resource with regard to the affect of policies on their behavior within the IT infrastructure. The resulting visual depiction of the IT infrastructure provides a visual representation that quickly communicates to the user which resources have the most/least policies guiding their behavior and the frequency of evaluation of these policies. For example, a large graphical element with a negative color may alert the user that the system resource is heavily affected by policies but that the policies are not being evaluated frequently enough.

System and method for visually rendering resource policy usage information

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Cary, NC, United States of America

Carrie Weaver Searcey