Applying policy attachment service level management (slm) semantics within a peered policy enforcement deployment

A system, comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processor programmed to:
• create, within the memory at a first policy enforcement point (PEP) platform of a plurality of peered PEP platforms, a peer policy object named with a policy enforcement metric context identifier that uniquely identifies a registered service policy to be enforced during runtime as a shared runtime policy enforcement activity by the plurality of peered PEP platforms within a peered policy enforcement deployment;
• deploy the peer policy object named with the policy enforcement metric context identifier to at least one other peered PEP platform within the peered policy enforcement deployment to initiate the shared runtime policy enforcement activity by the plurality of peered PEP platforms;
• and
• share during the runtime using the policy enforcement metric context identifier at least one runtime policy enforcement metric associated with runtime enforcement of the registered service policy with the at least one other peered PEP platform.

A computer program product, comprising:

• a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, where the computer readable program code when executed on a computer causes the computer to:
• create, at a first policy enforcement point (PEP) platform of a plurality of peered PEP platforms, a peer policy object named with a policy enforcement metric context identifier that uniquely identifies a registered service policy to be enforced during runtime as a shared runtime policy enforcement activity by the plurality of peered PEP platforms within a peered policy enforcement deployment;
• deploy the peer policy object named with the policy enforcement metric context identifier to at least one other peered PEP platform within the peered policy enforcement deployment to initiate the shared runtime policy enforcement activity by the plurality of peered PEP platforms;
• and
• share during the runtime, using the policy enforcement metric context identifier, at least one runtime policy enforcement metric associated with runtime enforcement of the registered service policy with the at least one other peered PEP platform.