Patent ID: 7398272
Filing Date: 2008-07-08
Classification: G06F,H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. In a system for formalizing, diffusing, and enforcing policy advisories and for monitoring policy compliance in the management of a network of computational devices, said system comprising a plurality of distributed clients, each of which runs on a corresponding networked computational device, an apparatus comprising: an enterprise console comprising a centrally managed advisory diffusion mechanism and a protocol for diffusing said advisories across said network of computational devices; a plurality of advisories specifying relevance criteria and an action, at least one advisory describing a problem that has been discovered on a client computational device; wherein said distributed clients running on said associated computational devices gather said advisories and process said advisories; and wherein each of said distributed clients, each running on an associated computational device, determines relevance of an advice message by evaluating a relevance clause of said advice message, while automatically retrieving properties of the computational device on which said client runs; wherein said advisories formally target specific states of a computational device associated with a client running thereon and formally specify actions to take in response thereto; wherein said client implements associated actions received from said console.