International Business Machines Corporation

Rosario Boccia

Andrea Tortosa

Vinicio Bombacino

Stefania Oliverio

Fabio D'Alfonso

Mario Rocco Garasto

Fabio Benedetti

Riccardo Rossi

Pietro Marella

Access is temporarily allowed to selected enterprise resources. A request to carry out an action is received from a private device. The private device is associated with an enterprise device, which has one or more enterprise policies in place. One or more steps for carrying out the requested action are defined, and it is determined that at least one policy from the enterprise policies is required for at least one of the steps. It is also determined that the at least one policy is in place on the private device. The private device is then allowed to carry out the requested action according to the at least one policy.

Implementation of selected enterprise policies

A technique for monitoring computers connected to a hardware switch. The switch is used to selectively connect a single set of peripheral units to the central unit of a selected one of the computers. In the proposed solution, status information of each non-selected computer is transmitted from the corresponding central unit to the switch. For this purpose, it is preferably exploited a corresponding bi-directional input port&#x2014;such as of the USE type. The switch routes the status information of the different non-selected computers to the central unit of the selected computer. The central unit of the selected computer aggregates the status information with its output information, and then transmits this aggregated information to the switch for its display on a monitor. For example, the output information is shown in a main area of the screen, while the status information is shown in a reserved strip on top of it.

Method, system and computer program for monitoring activities on computers connected through a hardware switch

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Salerno, Italy

Rosario Boccia