Patent ID: 8719400

Claim:
An autonomic management device comprising: a bus; memory coupled to the bus; and a microprocessor coupled to the bus, wherein the microprocessor is programmed to randomly or periodically monitor one or more network resources for detecting an anomaly with subscription or performance criteria associated with the one or more network resources wherein the network resource is either an autonomic manager or a self-managing resource of the network; identify a real-time and historic pattern of data flow sent across the network and accompanying real-time and historic patterns of resource action based on the data flow; after identifying the pattern of data flow and the accompanying pattern of resource action based on the data flow, generate an autonomic management rule for management of the network resource based on detecting an anomaly with a monitored resource, where detecting includes evaluating autonomic manager resource load indications or Service Level Agreement (SLA) minimum thresholds, or pattern existence, or improper load, or level of SLA is not being met; determine whether a monitored resource is a resource in a cluster of application resources; the autonomic management rule comprising instruction code; the autonomic management rule being dynamically moveable from hierarchical management resources, to peer-management network resources, to self-management network resources; the autonomic management rule includes at least one or more of: instructions for storage allocation, or task prioritization, or subscription of a resource over the network; the autonomic management rule associated with the identified real-time and historic pattern of data flow and the accompanying real-time and historic pattern of resource action based on the data flow; and, after identifying the status of the network resource, send the autonomic management rule, over the network, for receipt by the network resource or to a location that can accept the autonomic management rule near the network resource.