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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2000
Method and apparatus for use in specifying and insuring policies for management of computer networks
Mark Joseph Bearden, North Plainfield, NJ (US);
Sachin Garg, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Woei-Jyh Lee, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Aad Petrus Antonius van Moorsel, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A policy-based network management system is realized by enabling policy-based management programs to be defined via run-time loading of “policy packages” that are collections of reusable “policy components”. Such reusable policy components may be written by the vendor of the policy-based management system, or by system-administrators, who are the users of policy-based management systems or even by third-party people, who may be experts in the management of specific application domains such as vendors of network devices. In the latter case, these policy components can be assembled into a functionally complete policy package by system administrators. Alternatively, the system administrators can also load a pre-assembled policy package into a management server and only have to specify the desired service level goals.