Patent ID: 8214474
Filing Date: 2012-07-03
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for autonomic system management comprising: maintaining within an autonomic computing system a plurality of component models, each component model associated with one of a plurality of components in the autonomic computing system, each component model simulating the operation of its associated component to predict a state and performance of that component for various operational conditions of the entire computing system, wherein each component model is supplied to the autonomic computing system by and maintained by its associated component independent of a centralized management server and all of the component models are accessible by the centralized management server, wherein maintaining the component models further comprises adding a new component model for each new component added to the autonomic computing system by: accessing the component models maintained in the autonomic computing system using the centralized management server; using the centralized management server and accessed component models to develop a system-wide operational model for autonomic computing system performance covering all of the components in the autonomic computing system; computing an updated operational state for the autonomic computing system using the system-wide model developed using the accessed component models, the updated operational state associated with improved autonomic computing system behavior in at least one measure of behavior over a current operational state of the autonomic computing system; and managing the autonomic computing system in accordance with the computed updated operational state.