Network, server, and storage policy server
AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.
InventorsYasusi Kanada, Atsushi Aoki
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Abstract
A policy system that can add/delete policies easily to/from devices as needed through existing interfaces and enable policies to be developed quickly on-site and applied to devices provided with new device interfaces and new commands. A policy manager registers each defined policy type in a database after the definition and searches and refers to the defined policy type upon receiving a policy so as to check the validity of the policy. A policy agent registers each defined policy translation rule in a database after the definition. Upon receiving a policy, the policy agent searches and uses the translation rule to translate the policy to a command string.
Claims20
A policy server for controlling one or more devices connected to a network comprising:
- one or more translation methods residing in or received by said policy server for translating policies to command strings wherein said policy server, upon receiving a first policy, uses a first of said translation methods to translate said first policy to a first command string for a first device.
A policy system for controlling a device connected to a network using a policy comprising:
- a policy manager for managing device independent policies;
- a policy agent for translating said device independent policies to device dependent policies,
- wherein said policy manager, when instructed to distribute a first policy comprising a translation method for translating a specific type policy to a command string for said device, sends a policy apply request that includes said first policy to said policy agent and said policy agent stores said first policy;
- and wherein said policy agent, when receiving a second policy, translates said second policy to a command string using said translation method and sends said command string to said device.
A policy server for controlling a device connected to a network comprising:
- one or more policy definitions stored in said policy server wherein said policy server, upon receipt of a policy not matching any of said definitions, outputs an error message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.