International Business Machines Corporation

Neeraj Joshi

David Louis Kaminsky

David Bruce Lindquist

Sridhar Sudarsan

Balan Subramanian

Snehal S Antani

Christopher Paul Vignola

David Mark Ogle

Indrajit Poddar

Brad Byer Topol

Brent Alan Miller

Bala Rajaraman

Balachandar Rajaraman

Robert Russell Cutlip

David Phillip Johnson

John G Dudley

Pratik Gupta

Mandar U Jog

Nanchariah Raghu Chalasani

A Steven Krantz

Daniel S Rabinovitz

A computing environment climate-aware policy management system provides decision support by receiving a request to perform an action, where the request is communicated from or on behalf of a computing resource. Upon receiving the request, an indication of a computing environment climate is obtained, which may include for example, information related to the workflow associated with the requested action, information external to the workflow or other information that contextualizes the computing environment of components thereof. At least one policy is obtained that is associated with at least one of the action associated with the request, the resource associated with the request to perform the action received by the policy system manager, and the indicated climate. Each obtained policy is evaluated and a response to the request to perform the action is provided based upon the results of the policy evaluation.

Computing environment climate dependent policy management

A system, method and computer program product for determining policy follow-up action based on user-specified codes are set forth. When determining policy follow up action based upon user specified codes, a policy system receives function templates for permissible actions on a given resource type; each function template is annotated with indications of success and failure; the policy system performs an action on the resource; the policy system receives a status indication (or exception); the status indication is compared against the annotated function template; and, the policy system determines its next action based on that comparison.

Determining policy follow-up action based on user-specified codes

A system and method for language-agnostic policy management. At least one policy associated with an event occurrence is identified. At least one policy engine associated with the at least one policy is identified. The at least one policy is evaluated by a policy engine of the associated at least one policy engine.

Language-agnostic policy management

Systems () and methods () for managing transactional processing. The methods involve executing a first transaction () which is blocked by an exclusive lock of at least one second transaction () from accessing at least one resource of a system. Thereafter, a determination is made as to whether a Service Level Agreement ('SLA') associated with the first transaction is being met. If it is determined that the SLA is not being met, the resources needed by the first transaction are identified. Subsequently, all executing transactions, that are using the resources needed by the first transaction, are identified. At least one of the identified transactions is then dynamically slowed down or speed up. The transaction is slowed down or sped up by: adjusting how many records are to be processed in each sub-transaction of the transaction; and/or increasing or decreasing the time period between commit operations of the transaction.

Method for dynamically throttling transactional workloads

Systems and method for dynamically throttling transactional workloads

A method for policy-based program optimization of existing software code is performed where the code is segmented into code modules. The optimization is based on a performance policy that defines a target characteristic and a sacrificial characteristic relating to the existing software code and further defines an allowable degradation of the sacrificial characteristic resulting from optimization of the target characteristic. This method may include identifying code modules that contribute to suboptimal performance of the software code with respect to the target characteristic; identifying code transformations that increase performance of the suboptimal code modules with respect to the target characteristic; and optimizing the identified code modules by selectively applying the code transformations in accordance with the performance policy to increase performance of the software code with respect to the target characteristic.

Policy-based program optimization to minimize environmental impact of software execution

A method, system and apparatus for autonomically configuring a virtual log. In accordance with the present invention, events flowing into the virtual log can be heuristically processed to determine if any events have been lost. When an event is considered to have been lost, the size of the log associated with the event can be increased. Also, the interval in which the virtual log interacts with the associated log can be decreased so as to ensure that the events will not continue to be lost. When a period of time has elapsed during which no events are heuristically determined to have been lost, either or both of the interval and associated log can be adjusted so as to increase the interval and decrease the size of the associated log.

Autonomic virtual log configuration

The present invention discloses a solution for managing policy artifacts using a configuration management database (CMDB). Policies can be associated with a number of information technology resources, such as servers, businesses applications and the like. The solution permits automatic tagging of the policies (auto-discovery) as they enter the CMDB. For example, when a policy is added, it can be compared against a set of tagging rules. Multiple rules can match a new policy, which results in multiple tags being added for the policy. The policy specific tags can be optionally indexed for faster searching. Once indexed, the CMDB can support policy and policy tag based queries. In one embodiment, policy artifacts can be manipulated within a CMDB tool in a manner consistent with how the CMDB tool handles configuration items (CIs).

Configuration management database (CMDB) which establishes policy artifacts and automatic tagging of the same

A configuration management database (CMDB) that associates a policy with a configuration item (CI) in the CMDB. The policy contains an 'applies to' field and a 'type descriptor'. When a relationship is created between the CI and a second CI in the CMDB, the policy is associated with the second CI. The type descriptor of the policy may be evaluated and the policy associated with the second CI in response to the evaluation. The policy may contain a type descriptor comprising an instance of a CI type. The policy may contain a type descriptor comprising a CI type. The policy may contain an &#x201c;applies to&#x201d; field having a value of &#x201c;this CI type&#x201d;. The policy may contain an &#x201c;applies to&#x201d; field having a value of &#x201c;hosting environment of this CI type&#x201d;. The type descriptor may include a hosted CI component portion and a hosting CI component portion.

CMDB-based policy propagation

The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for the autonomic installation and configuration of an enterprise business process on-demand. The method comprises: providing a business process document for expressing the business process, wherein the business process comprises a plurality of components and a workflow; providing a plurality of installation documents, where each installation document describes an installation of a component of the business process; providing a mapping document for mapping each component of the business process to at least one of the installation documents describing the installation of that component; and provisioning the business process on-demand using the business process document, the installation documents, and the mapping document.

Autonomic installation and configuration of an enterprise business process on-demand

A method, system, and computer program product for the automatic detection and fixing of security vulnerabilities in both individual software components and across complex, multi-component software solutions. The architecture of the software solution to be monitored is analyzed prior to its being monitored. Data derived from the analysis is used to proactively identify possible ways to attack the software solution. The software solution being monitored and the system on which it runs is periodically scanned, and attacks on it are attempted. A list of possible attacks is continuously updated, for example, in a manner similar to virus signatures provided by virus security companies, and a log is generated describing which attacks were successful and which ones failed.

Method, system and computer program product for computer system vulnerability analysis and fortification

Techniques are disclosed for efficiently analyzing measurement data for business processes (for example, in a service provider environment). Business process-aware modules or 'cubes' are created from the measurement data, using features of a spatially-enabled database system. A 'drill-down' approach is provided for investigating underlying information for a cube (including lower-level linked cubes). Data types other than cubes, such as planes from which a cube is constructed, may also be analyzed. The disclosed techniques may be used to provide autonomic systems, which are self-aware, at a business process level. That is, based on results of analyzing data represented by a cube, autonomic adjustments may be made. In a service provider environment, the analysis and/or the autonomic adjustments may be directed toward enabling the service provider to avoid jeopardizing commitments in service level agreements (and the revenue loss that may result when the commitments are not met).

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