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AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsAlessandro Donatelli, Claudio Marinelli, Arcangelo Di Balsamo, Salvatore D'Alo'
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A resource management method (400c) and a corresponding system implementing an adaptive model are proposed. The method allows an authority to define a desired target state of several kinds of resources, which are directly controlled by different subjects. The authority publishes (460) a series of rules in a shared repository; each rule indicates the target state of a resource for a corresponding logic or physic category of the subjects. Each subject retrieves (444-456;462-468) the rules corresponding to its logic category from the shared repository. The rules are then applied (458;469) by the subject; as a result, the physic category of the subject is updated. The subject now retrieves and applies the rules corresponding to its physic category. In this way, different dependency schemes may be implemented without any explicit definition in the rules.
In a data processing structure with a distributed architecture (100) including a plurality of subject entities (110a) and at last one authority entity (105), a resource management method (300,400a) for consistently self-configuring the subject entities, each subject entity controlling an instance of at least one resource and belonging to at least one of a plurality of logic categories and to at least one of a plurality of physic categories, the at least one authority entity defining a target state of the resources, wherein the method includes the steps of:
The method (300,400a) according to any claim from 1 to 3, further including the step of detecting (410) the at least one physic category of the subject entity by performing (410) a scan of hardware and/or software characteristics of the subject entity.
A computer program application (203,209,215;227a-236a,251a) directly loadable into a working memory of a data processing structure (100) with a distributed architecture for performing the resource management method (300,400a) of any claim from 1 to 5 when the program is run on the structure.
In a data processing structure with a distributed architecture (100) including a plurality of subject entities and at last one authority entity (105), a computer program (227a-236a,251a) directly loadable into a working memory of a computer of a subject entity (110a) for performing a resource management method (300,400a) for consistently self-configuring the subject entity when the program is run on the computer, wherein each subject entity controls an instance of at least one resource and belongs to at least one of a plurality of logic categories and to at least one of a plurality of physic categories, the at least one authority entity defining a target state of the resources by publishing a plurality of rules, at least one of the rules including an indication of the target state of a resource for a logic category of the subject entities and at least a further one of the rules including an indication of the target state of a resource for a physic category of the subject entities, and wherein the method includes the steps of:
In a data processing structure with a distributed architecture including a plurality of subject entities (110a) and at last one authority entity (105), a resource management system (100) for consistently self-configuring the subject entities, each subject entity controlling an instance of at least one resource and belonging to at least one of a plurality of logic categories and to at least one of a plurality of physic categories, the at least one authority entity including means (203,209,215) for defining a target state of the resources by publishing a plurality of rules, at least one of the rules including an indication of the target state of a resource for a logic category of the subject entities and at least a further one of the rules including an indication of the target state of a resource for a physic category of the subject entities, and each subject entity including means (227a-236a,251a) for retrieving the rules corresponding to the at least one logic category of the subject entity and the rules corresponding to the at least one physic category of the subject entity, and means (251a) for applying each retrieved rule to configure the subject entity according to the target state.
In a data processing structure with a distributed architecture including a plurality of subject entities and at last one authority entity (105), a computer (110a) of a subject entity suitable to be used in a resource management method for consistently self-configuring the subject entity, each subject entity controlling an instance of at least one resource and belonging to at least one of a plurality of logic categories and to at least one of a plurality of physic categories, the at least one authority entity defining a target state of the resources by publishing a plurality of rules, at least one of the rules including an indication of the target state of a resource for a logic category of the subject entities and at least a further one of the rules including an indication of the target state of a resource for a physic category of the subject entities, and wherein the computer includes means (227a-236a,251a) for retrieving the rules corresponding to the at least one logic category of the subject entity and the rules corresponding to the at least one physic category of the subject entity, and means (251a) for applying each retrieved rule to configure the subject entity according to the target state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.