Transition between manual management and autonomic management of autonomic systems

A computer hardware system for the autonomic management of autonomic systems comprising:

• a manual management process and an autonomic management process embedded in a memory of the computer hardware system, each of said manual each of said manual and autonomic management processes having a configuration for recommending courses of action responsive to monitoring the operation of a managed system;
• a data structure embedded in a memory of the computer hardware system and coupled to said manual and autonomic management processes and configured for storing an indicator reflecting a level of trust of decision making by said manual and autonomic management processes;
• and,
• a transition process embedded in a memory of the computer hardware system and coupled to said data structure and programmed to empower a selected one of said manual and autonomic management process to manage said managed system based upon said data structure containing an indicator which exceeds a threshold level, wherein
• the autonomic management process comprises the steps of:
• monitoring a managed system and recommending a course of action to be performed in said managed system;
• determining whether said recommended course of action has been performed by an administrator and responsive to said determination, further determining whether an outcome from said course of action comports with a predicted outcome;
• changing a point count responsive to a further determination that said outcome from said course of action comports with said predicted outcome, and oppositely changing said point count responsive to a further determination that said outcome from said course of action does not comport with said predicted outcome;
• and,
• when said point count crosses a threshold value, transitioning management of said managed system to an adaptive component.