Autonomic Computing

Control Loops

In an autonomic computing architecture, the basic management element is a control loop, depicted in Figure 8.1. This acts as manager of the resource through monitoring, analysis, and actions taken on a set of predefined system policies. These control loops, or managers, can communicate and eventually will negotiate with each other and other types of resources within and outside of the autonomic computing architecture.

Figure 8.1. An example of a basic autonomic control loop.

This collects information from the system and makes decisions based on that data and then issues instructions to make adjustments to the system. An intelligent ...