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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2004
Gerd Breiter, Wildberg, DE;
Jochen Breh, Stuttgard, DE;
Thomas Spatzier, Sindelfingen, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a new management system and a new method for managing distributed resources (-), comprising a workflow engine () that can execute management workflows in order to actively control the distributed resources (-). The new management system is characterized in that autonomic Correlation Services (-) are introduced that manage different functional parts of the managed system in cooperation with workflow engine (), whereby each Correlation Service (-) employs a Correlation Engine () and a set of rules () that describe how underlying resources (-) shall be managed, whereby a controller () communicates with the Correlation Services (-).