Management of a computing system with dynamic change of roles

A system for managing a computing system comprising a plurality of client computing machines to be managed and at least one server computing machine for controlling the managing of the client computing machines, each client computing machine having at least one of a plurality of roles in a deployment infrastructure for deploying management data from said at least one server computing machine to the client computing machines, comprising:

• a storage device;
• a data processor coupled to the storage device;
• and
• program code, stored in the storage device, that is configured to perform, when executed by the data processor, steps of:
• monitoring one or more operative parameters of each client computing machine against one or more reference policies;
• detecting a non-compliance of the operative parameters to the reference policies;
• restoring a compliance of the operative parameters to the reference policies by changing a role of at least one of the client computing machines in response to the non-compliance of the operative parameters to the reference policies;
• including in a parameter probe for each client computing machine one or more reference threshold conditions for each client computing machine according to the reference policies and to the operative parameters of each client computing machine;
• and
• deploying the parameter probe for each client computing machine to each respective one of the client computing machines;
• wherein said monitoring one or more operative parameters comprises:
• monitoring the operative parameters of each client computing machine against the corresponding reference threshold conditions using the deployed parameter probe for each client computing machine that is resident on the each client computing machine.