Policy creation support method, policy creation support system, and program therefor

A system comprising:

• a monitoring target system including plural resources, and providing a service using the resources;
• a policy creation support system, executed at least in part by a hardware processor, controlling the monitoring target system based on requirements of a service level agreement (SLA) including a range of a service metric for the service,
• wherein for each combination of the resources which will be used to provide the service, the policy creation support system stores an autonomic control policy including:
• (1) a threshold metric of a certain resource, and
• (2) an action executed if the threshold metric is satisfied,
• wherein for said each combination of the resources which will be used to provide the service, the autonomic control policy is created by the policy creation support system according to:
• (A) generating a workload of the service;
• (B) obtaining a metric of currently used resources at a time corresponding to a violation of the range of the service metric for the service;
• (C) calculating the threshold metric of the autonomic control policy, based on the obtained metric,
• wherein the action in the autonomic control policy is to use an additional resource for providing the service;
• and
• wherein obtained metrics used in the calculating are designated by a template stored in the policy creation support system.