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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2013
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Paul Ferwerda, Bedford, NH (US);
John Herendeen, Upton, MA (US);
Richard P. Mousseau, Stratham, NH (US);
ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method can support security management in a computing environment that includes one or more virtualized machines to which one or more applications can be deployed. The system can include a plurality of agents, wherein each agent resides on one of a plurality of machines in the computing environment and operates to manage software processes and resources running in the computing environment. The system also includes a controller that collects data from the plurality of agents about current operating performance of the computing environment, and uses the data gathered to enforce policies and to deploy services in a way that honors one or more service level agreements of the deployed services. Furthermore, the communication between each of the plurality of agents and the controller can be secured with a mutual authentication method, and the communication between an agent and an application is secured with a one-way authentication method.