Patent ID: 7591009
Filing Date: 2009-09-15
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A policy rule management support method, which is performed by an information processing apparatus for supporting maintenance of policy rules in a computer system, wherein: said policy rules are operation management procedures in said computer system; said maintenance of policy rules includes modification of the contents of at least one policy rule responsive to a configuration change within the computer system, said information processing apparatus comprises a processing unit and a policy rule storage unit that stores at least one policy rule for each component of said computer system; and said processing unit performs: a receiving step, in which a notification is received related to one or more component of said computer system; a determination step, in which, whether the type of the notification received in said receiving step is configuration change notification or other type including a performance failure notification, is determined; a detection step, in which at least one component affected by the configuration change notification received in said receiving step and determined in said determination step, is detected; and a generation step, in which policy rules to be modified are listed by specifying the policy rules that are associated respectively with the components detected in said detection step from said policy rule storage unit, and a list of the specified policy rules is generated.