Patent ID: 9082085
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of providing action management in a computing environment, comprising: receiving an electronically communicated request to perform an action within a computing environment, where the request is received by a policy management system executing on a computer processing device and the request is communicated from or on behalf of a resource within the computing environment; obtaining an indication of a computing environment climate that is of interest in evaluating the requested action; obtaining at least one policy from a storage device, where each obtained policy is associated with at least one of: the action associated with the request, the resource associated with the request, and the computing environment climate that is of interest in evaluating the requested action, wherein each obtained policy includes information that defines climate conditions that govern the applicability of the corresponding policy; evaluating each obtained policy in view of the obtained indication of computing environment climate; and responding to the request to perform the action based upon the results of the policy evaluation.