Chapter 26: Policy-Driven System Management

Henrik Plate1, Cataldo Basile2, and Stefano Paraboschi3     1SAP Research Sophia-Antipolis, Mougins, France     2Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy     3Universitá degli studi di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy

Abstract

Policy-driven system management or policy-based management (PBM) is a research domain that aims to automate the management of large-scale computing systems. The long-term vision of PBM is that humans no longer need to care for low-level aspects of system management, but may focus on the specification of high-level management goals that will be autonomously enforced by computer agents. Ultimately, computing systems will be comparable to, for instance, biological systems that regulate basic body ...

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