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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2007
Mandis S. Beigi, White Plains, NY (US);
Seraphin Calo, Courtland Manor, NY (US);
David A. George, Somers, NY (US);
Dinesh Verma, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
Mandis S. Beigi, White Plains, NY (US);
Seraphin Calo, Courtland Manor, NY (US);
David A. George, Somers, NY (US);
Dinesh Verma, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the invention is a method and apparatus for distributed policy evaluation. One embodiment of a method for evaluating a systems management policy, where the policy includes a condition and an action to be taken when the condition evaluates to TRUE, includes forwarding the policy, by a first autonomic manager, to a second autonomic manager and receiving at the first autonomic manager at least partial evaluation results for the condition from a third autonomic manager. The first autonomic manager, the second autonomic manager, and the third autonomic manager are arranged in a ring configuration such that the evaluating occurs in a cascading manner, and only the first autonomic manager has access to a policy storage from which the policy is retrieved.